Don’t expect to practice hard and not experience the weird. Hard practice that evades the unknown makes for a weak commitment. So an ancient once said, “Help hard practice by befriending every demon.”
- Kyong Ho, Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen - Tradition and Teachers
Man I’m getting old lol. 😆 I threw my back out dance battling my adult daughter in the kitchen! 🤪
#oldman
“Fuck the world don’t ask me for shit, everything you get you got to work hard for it”
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
- Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Discourse on Loving-kindness
Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.
- Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Discourse on Loving-kindness
I’m extremely bored with everything right now. Anyone else been feeling this way lately?
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don’t hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgmental and lazy mind. So an ancient once said, “Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life.
- Kyong Ho, Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen - Tradition and Teachers
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
- Jean de La Fontaine
He who is friendly amidst the hostile, peaceful amidst the violent, and unattached amidst the attached — him do I call a holy man.
- Brahmanavagga: The Holy Man
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
- Andre Gide
You yourselves must strive; the Buddhas only point the way. Those meditative ones who tread the path are released from the bonds of Mara.
- Maggavagga: The Path
Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Samuel Johnson
When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent. Not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, you are neither holy nor wise, just an ordinary person who has completed their work.
- Layman Pang, The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry by Stephen Mitchell
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
- James Stephens
The mind is like a crazy monkey, which leaps about and never stays in one place. It is completely restless and constantly paranoid about its surroundings. The training, or the meditation practice, is a way to catch this monkey, to begin with. That is the starting point.
- Chogyam Trungpa, The Teacup & the Skullcup: Chogyam Trungpa on Zen and Tantra
