I settled at Cold Mountain a while ago, already it seems like years and years.
Freely drifting, I wander the woods and streams
And sit there, watching things themselves; I am satisfied.
Not many come this far into the mountains,
White clouds sometimes touch and pass, thin grass does for a mattress,
The blue sky makes a good cover, a stone under my head. I am happy
I’ll let heaven and earth go about their changes.
Han Shan, Cold Mountain, poem 12
I wish more people knew that healing the nervous system is about being still.
Laying in the sun. Being present while you eat your food. Listening to the sounds of nature. Letting your imagination run wild.
Instead of more routine, the body needs less.
Dr Nicole LePera.
To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty,
it means a change in how those difficulties are met.
Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday life
Your definitions of desirable and undesirable, as well as good and bad, all come about
because you have defined how things need to be, in order for you to be OK
Michael Singer
What if the path to happiness is not
bringing order into the mess of our lives
but instead relaxing amid the mess
and rejoicing in its aliveness and beauty
Haemin Sunim, Korean Zen Buddhist Teacher, When Things Don’t go your Way
