Platitudes are not poetry.
You may want Zen practice to make you calmer, more relaxed, and more peaceful. But though these things may occur, they are not what practice is about. In fact, Zen practice is learning how to live in hell, the hell of suffering and the hell of creating suffering. Practice is experiencing life and responding to whatever arises in the midst of hellishness.
Elihu Genmyo Smith
You may want Zen practice to make you calmer, more relaxed, and more peaceful. But though these things may occur, they are not what practice is about. In fact, Zen practice is learning how to live in hell, the hell of suffering and the hell of creating suffering. Practice is experiencing life and responding to whatever arises in the midst of hellishness.
Elihu Genmyo Smith
To live in this world
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
To live in this world
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
It’s all for nothing in the end but I say an unconditional Yes! to it all anyway.
It’s all for nothing in the end but I say an unconditional Yes! to it all anyway.
There is no help in
Ramana Maharshi
changing your environment.
Whether at home or in the forest.
If you can do it in the forest,
Why not in the home?
Therefore, why change the environment?
There is no help in
Ramana Maharshi
changing your environment.
Whether at home or in the forest.
If you can do it in the forest,
Why not in the home?
Therefore, why change the environment?
It feels somehow safer to keep pretending to be someone small instead of being no one and everything.
Joan Tollifson
It feels somehow safer to keep pretending to be someone small instead of being no one and everything.
Joan Tollifson
Meditation is all well and good but sometimes you just can’t beat a good nap.
Meditation is all well and good but sometimes you just can’t beat a good nap.