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this my false identification with a limited self (the decision) slowly fades. More and more I can be who I truly am: a no-self, an open and spacious response to life. My true self, so long deserted and forgotten, can function, now that I can see that the bottleneck of fear is an illusion.
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
Formal meditation, however, is no substitute for bringing space consciousness into everyday life.
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
or the discovery of a tried and true recipe for uninterrupted joy. Not fame. Not success. There’s no end point here, no fixed state of completion. There’s no master or guru status.
Meggan Watterson • Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet
Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
One unique Japanese concept is the idea of ikigai, which can be roughly translated to reason for being (or “raison d’être” in my native French) . Each person’s ikigai is personal to them, reflective of their inner self, and creating a mental state in which they feel at ease. Wha
But no matter how long we discuss the question “What should I do?” there is no conclusion. You must just be here. “Here” doesn’t mean Minneapolis or San Francisco. “Here” means right now.
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
the path to understanding is not through speculation or philosophical discourse but through personal realization, which requires avoiding distractions and cultivating whatever brings one closer to one’s own mind.
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
The only way we can continue this practice is if we want to sit, maybe for no reason, and if we are interested in awakening to the deceptions and delusions of our ordinary mind, not because that is an enlightened thing to do, but because it is helpful for our lives: we get in trouble less; our relationships are more harmonious.
Katherine Thanas • The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
Ordinary means that there is no need to add or take away from what is going on in the mind. Each portion of life has the whole of life. There is nothing wrong with what is in the mind except the sense that something is wrong. In this way simplicity turns to a form of compassion.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
My central life-long passion to know myself and to know God has led me deep into myself, meeting all that I find there. Sometimes my focus has been solely psychological, at other times purely mystical. I have needed many times to relearn that the source of enduring happiness is within and is not dependent on any outer situation, person, place, or t
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