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Knee-jerk judgement and condemnation says more about our own psychological frailties than about the target of our righteousness.
Before seeing who you are, you read the scriptures to see if you have got it right. After seeing who you are, you read the scriptures to see if they have got it right!
Douglas Harding
Before seeing who you are, you read the scriptures to see if you have got it right. After seeing who you are, you read the scriptures to see if they have got it right!
Douglas Harding
True Zen cares nothing about Zen.
Douglas Harding
True Zen cares nothing about Zen.
Douglas Harding
Life is a burden until it isn’t.
Will Rauschenberger, Ordinary Zen Sangha
Life is a burden until it isn’t.
Will Rauschenberger, Ordinary Zen Sangha
Our ability to let go, allow whatever arises and act out of the present moment instead of memories of the past or desires for the future, is never more tested than in the close relationships with those we love.
Our ability to let go, allow whatever arises and act out of the present moment instead of memories of the past or desires for the future, is never more tested than in the close relationships with those we love.
Boredom declares: ‘there’s nothing happening’. Really? Is that true? If we attend carefully and closely can we see there are always infinite happenings right here, right now? Boundless sights, sounds, sensations all unfolding perpetually, and we don’t have to do anything but sit back, let go and allow the show to play.
Boredom declares: ‘there’s nothing happening’. Really? Is that true? If we attend carefully and closely can we see there are always infinite happenings right here, right now? Boundless sights, sounds, sensations all unfolding perpetually, and we don’t have to do anything but sit back, let go and allow the show to play.
Positive thinking is still just more thinking. It doesn’t solve the problem it purports to.
Positive thinking is still just more thinking. It doesn’t solve the problem it purports to.
See if you can notice the ever-present experience of desire and aversion?
Sam Harris
See if you can notice the ever-present experience of desire and aversion?
Sam Harris
What do we really mean, what are we really saying when we say ‘we let our guard down’?
What do we really mean, what are we really saying when we say ‘we let our guard down’?
True psychological freedom and genuine responsibility for oneself enable and reinforce each other in a positive feedback loop. They are inseparable.
True psychological freedom and genuine responsibility for oneself enable and reinforce each other in a positive feedback loop. They are inseparable.
The teachings and pointers of others will only get you so far. Only you can recognise your way home.