Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone

On this road walks no one this autumn eve.

If we see this dissatisfaction in an attentive, nonjudgmental way, our slumping usually corrects itself.

Our original, still mind is always here, but our worries and fears leak all over everything, so our original self goes unnoticed.

We’re able to live with a rhythmic ease as our need to be anyone other than who we are vanishes.

To hear sounds with the whole body and mind, to see forms with the whole body and mind, one understands them intimately. —Dogen

And when it does, it feels like an experience that you fall into—a serendipitous accident. The moment you try to control, define, deepen, or extend it, you are returned, unceremoniously, to your small, chattering mind.

That heat he was experiencing actually helps us move beyond the small, complaining self from which our chatter arises.

When intimacy is present, any notion of otherness vanishes.

Being “in the mountains meeting the mountains” means you are meeting your true interbeing nature.