The precious tree of nondual mind
spreads throughout the universe
it bears compassion in flower and fruit,
though there is no other,
and nobody “doing good“
Tilopa, 988 – 1069, Indian tantric master and scholar, influential in the Buddhist Mahāmudrā/ Tibetian tradition
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul.
You are here to realize and honour these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.
John O’Donohue, Anam Chara
Time and again, in practice, all we really have to do is see the part of us that is either fearful or reluctant or objecting.
See that part – the one we think is the problem.
Once we can see that part, the one that we ourselves are objecting to, and believe to be problematic, and the origin of our difficulty in practice – once we see it, we can learn to simply be with it.
No need to do anything about it. Be with it.
Henry Shukman
We experience a lot of moods and external stimuli during any one day. Rather than getting sucked in, can we dwell calmly, simply aware as they rise and pass away?
The mind and the externals are just thus.
The gate of liberation is open.
Dogen
Look within.
Within is the wellspring of good;
and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
There is a hard truth to be told:
before Spring becomes beautiful
it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck…
But in that muddy mess,
the conditions for rebirth are being created
Parker Palmer
