A Mind Like Space
—Lama Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Making Your Mind an Ocean
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
Working in this way loosens the knots in the mind, and it also introduces a space so that you can start moving between anxieties and distractions and not struggle with them so much. Just staying with the questions, life grows calmer
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
For a taste of this mystery, simply close your eyes, calm your breathing, and try to still your mind. This will be next to impossible; thoughts and feelings will come up regardless. The calmer your mind is, the more disconnected and arbitrary will be the thoughts that arise. Images will appear out of nowhere, things you had long ignored or forgotte
... See moreRichard Smoley • The Dice Game of Shiva
In this regard, we could review the three principles of heaven, earth, and human. Heaven is regarded as space. It provides some psychological space in your state of mind, the sense that there’s enough room for you to work. The space of heaven is primordial mind, free from conditions.