Our resting place, our true home is always right here, right now under all circumstances in any situation. If it’s not here, now it’s nowhere at all.
In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is…
Awakeness
In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is…
Awakeness
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Tilopa
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Tilopa
Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live.
One lives as one can.
There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.
If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.
Moreover this way fits in with the average way of mankind in general.
But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other.
If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.
Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.
And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.
So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation.
But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.
Carl Jung
Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live.
One lives as one can.
There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.
If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.
Moreover this way fits in with the average way of mankind in general.
But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other.
If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.
Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.
And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.
So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation.
But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.
Carl Jung
Not having a problem with having a problem is to be carefree.
Anon
Not being uncomfortable about being uncomfortable is comfort.
Not being afraid about being anxious is trust.
Not being ashamed about being embarrassed is self-esteem.
Your attitude to your emotional truth sets you free.
Not having a problem with having a problem is to be carefree.
Anon
Not being uncomfortable about being uncomfortable is comfort.
Not being afraid about being anxious is trust.
Not being ashamed about being embarrassed is self-esteem.
Your attitude to your emotional truth sets you free.
Here it is right now. Everything as it is. Start thinking about it and you miss it. Try and grasp it and it vanishes.
Here it is right now. Everything as it is. Start thinking about it and you miss it. Try and grasp it and it vanishes.
There is nothing to be done and no doer to do anything. All action simply emerges out of the unknown and we claim ownership after the fact.
There is nothing to be done and no doer to do anything. All action simply emerges out of the unknown and we claim ownership after the fact.
Every morning I get up early, go out and walk, and listen and look and sense and feel and think and always with the inquiry ‘what is here now?’
And after I return I pretty much continue to do that all day wherever and whatever I am doing. And it feels like practice enough for me.
Every morning I get up early, go out and walk, and listen and look and sense and feel and think and always with the inquiry ‘what is here now?’
And after I return I pretty much continue to do that all day wherever and whatever I am doing. And it feels like practice enough for me.
Take no one else’s word for anything.
Find out for yourself.
Accept no authority but your own.