The burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.
What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?
Third Zen Patriarch
Tag: Present moment
An invitation to fullness
There is really no place to go in this moment. We are already here. Can we be here fully?
There really is nothing to do. Can we let go into non-doing, into pure being? There really is nothing to attain, no special “state” or “feeling” because whatever you are experiencing in this moment is already special, already extraordinary, by virtue of the fact that it is being experienced.
The paradox of this invitation is that everything you might wish for is already here.
And the only important thing is – to be the knowing that awareness already is.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners
To be quiet in heart
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
Being too busy
I practice meditation
so that I can notice the small purple flowers by the roadside
that I would otherwise miss
Anagarika Shri Munindra, 1915 – 2003, Vipassana teacher
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Not a dress rehearsal
Treat every moment as your last
It is not a preparation for something else
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
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Why look elsewhere
There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide
At the center of your being;
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
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