The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you?
You hold on to things, causing your confusion.
Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go.
If you know nature, you’ll know the Way. If you know the Way, you’ll know nature.
Ajahn Chah
photo Phil Champion
Imperfection is not our personal problem
– it is a natural part of existing.
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
photo wingchi poon
That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.
“Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
photo of Bantry bay, philip Halling
In all things in nature
there is something
of the marvellous
Aristotle
photo wing-chi poon
Prompted by seeing a beautiful (almost) full moon in the clear Kildare sky last evening:
At night, deep in the mountains
I sit in meditation
The affairs of men never reach here
Everything is quiet and empty
The incense has been swallowed up
by the endless night;
My robe has become a garment of dew.
Unable to sleep, I walk into the woods;
Suddenly, above the highest peak,
the full moon appears.
Ryokan, Zen Buddhist monk, 1758 – 1831
photo Andrew Choy
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