I’m not a Zen Buddhist. My mind has no spiritual tradition. It is whatever it is, however it is, wherever it is, whenever it is.
I’m not a Zen Buddhist. My mind has no spiritual tradition. It is whatever it is, however it is, wherever it is, whenever it is.
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
You guard a spiritual thing;
Tan-hsia (739-824)
It isn't something you could make,
And it isn't something you can describe.
In this ground of ours,
There is no Buddha, no nirvana,
And no path to practice,
No doctrine to actualize.
The way is not within existence
Or nonexistence,
What method would one then practice?
This abundant light,
Wherever you are, in every situation,
Is itself the great way.
You guard a spiritual thing;
Tan-hsia (739-824)
It isn't something you could make,
And it isn't something you can describe.
In this ground of ours,
There is no Buddha, no nirvana,
And no path to practice,
No doctrine to actualize.
The way is not within existence
Or nonexistence,
What method would one then practice?
This abundant light,
Wherever you are, in every situation,
Is itself the great way.
Everything is just happening including you.
Everything is just happening including you.
I have no idea what awakening or enlightenment mean to other people but to me they simply mean the open, unconditional, honest, vulnerable acceptance of our life exactly as it is.
I have no idea what awakening or enlightenment mean to other people but to me they simply mean the open, unconditional, honest, vulnerable acceptance of our life exactly as it is.
I think so-called ‘original nature’ is a phantom. There is no such thing. There’s no original anything. There is simply everything that happens in every moment, whatever that may be.
I think so-called ‘original nature’ is a phantom. There is no such thing. There’s no original anything. There is simply everything that happens in every moment, whatever that may be.
Rather than practicing in the midst of life, the midst of life is practice.
Rather than practicing in the midst of life, the midst of life is practice.
If you can’t value the darkness, how will you ever value the light?
Shiv Sengupta
If you can’t value the darkness, how will you ever value the light?
Shiv Sengupta
What is the meaning of life? You may as well ask what is the meaning of a mushroom. It is simply to be a mushroom. The meaning of life is simply life itself, to just be alive, to fully be the totality of our aliveness in all its myriad manifestations.
What is the meaning of life? You may as well ask what is the meaning of a mushroom. It is simply to be a mushroom. The meaning of life is simply life itself, to just be alive, to fully be the totality of our aliveness in all its myriad manifestations.