Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate
Zhuangzi, 4th Century BC
Tag: Stress Reduction
Not waiting for a “better” one
Our shifting energies
The source of our unease is the unfulfillable longing for a lasting certainty and security, for something solid to hold on to. Unconsciously we expect that if we could just get the right job, the right partner, the right something, our lives would run smoothly. [Instead,] we are encouraged to get comfortable with, begin to relax with, lean into, whatever the experience may be. We are encouraged to drop the storyline and simply pause, look out, and breathe. Simply be present for a few seconds, a few minutes, a few hours, a whole lifetime, with our own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds, wholly partaking in all experiences just exactly as they are.
Pema Chodron, Taking the Leap
Really get a sense of
In the ongoing truthfulness of our practice, it is really important to sift through all the static and white noise that the emotions and psychologies are setting up — to really see, to get a handle on, what intention feels like in our nervous system. And the quality of attention — how big, or narrow, or tight we feel, how bound we feel when we’re really occupied with a whole series of thoughts, how our attention bunches up — we start to sense this is, in the bodily sense; we get a real sense of the feel of this and the release of that. This is what we practice. This is the dissolving.
Ajahn Sucitto, What if I get it wrong?
Let go
Despite all the recent storms in Ireland, buds are starting to appear on the trees. A lesson in resilience and trust. Most of us are very good at bringing suffering upon ourselves. We turn small issues into problems and then fixate on the worries and anxieties and let them fester and take root inside us. We are less good at simply letting go and letting things develop in their own time.
Sitting quietly,
doing nothing,
Spring comes,
and the grass grows,
by itself.
Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
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Depth
When we get anxious, our breathing tends to get shallow and our energy tends to move upwards, making us feel less solid, less grounded. Our thinking process too can speed up or get hooked by conditioned patterns of fear or unworthiness. We are, however, much more than we think we are. Pausing, getting in touch with this depth inside us many times during the day helps us not swept away by the winds that blow.
Our true life
lives at a great depth within us
Rabindranath Tagore
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