The Dude and the Zen Master
The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it ... See more
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things:
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Jane Hirshfield • Passages Saved From iOS
change with change is the changeless state.” In other words, when I express my true self and move with the world rather than against it, then change becomes something to flow with rather than resist.
Shannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
When I realized that I was seeing the world as it is, that led to the feeling of kinship. Whatever I paid attention to, that seemed to be me at that moment. I’d already been everything, done everything, owned everything. I’d already been this wall and this couch. All you have to do is be you and everything comes to you. It is not a question of owne
... See more