It is imperative to cut off the mind road.
If you do not cut off the mind road, you will be a ghost, clinging to the grass.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai,, 1183–1260, Chinese Chán master
Overthinking
Tag: Present moment
Magic all around
There’s always a lot of magic, but our way of seeing it is very small and we mostly just call it Nature.
Why, we are not at all surprised that we can pick up an apple in autumn that was a pink flower in the spring.
That’s natural magic and we don’t really notice it.
Pat O’Shea, 1931 – 2007, Irish children’s fiction writer, The Hounds of the Mórrígan
Sufficient meaning
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.
Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears
Jung, Autobiography
Remember today
Much of what you see “out there” is actually manufactured “in here” by your brain
Only a small fraction of the input to your occipital lobes comes from the external world;
the rest comes from internal memory stores and perceptual-processing modules.
Rich Hanson, Buddha’s Brain
Sunday Quote: Power
The most common way people give up their power,
is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
A big empty space
A long weekend here in Ireland.
My home can be anywhere, heaven or earth.
All I need is room in my heart.
And a good source of water, of course.
You need room in your heart . . . a big empty space
To sort out what’s real from what’s not.
Hsu Yun, 1840 – 1959, renowned and influential Chinese Chan Buddhist master
