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let go of ambitions and fears

 

Desire and mistrust

keep you from finding ease.

Peace of mind comes when we let go

of ambitions and fears and follow

the Sage from moment

to moment.

 

4th changing line,

from The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 56, Lü / The Wanderer

 

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enlightenment is not apart from the world

 

When hate and

love don’t block the mind,

stretch out both legs and

then lie down.

 

If you hope and intend

to transform others, you must perfect

expedient means. Don’t cause them to have

doubts, and then their self-nature

will appear.

 

The Buddhadharma is

here in the world; enlightenment is

not apart from the world. To search for Bodhi

apart from the world is like looking for

a hare with horns.

 

Right views are

transcendental; deviant views

are all mundane. Deviant and right

completely destroyed: the

Bodhi nature appears

spontaneously.

 

This verse is

the Sudden Teaching, also called

the great dharma boat. Hear in confusion,

pass through ages, in an instant’s

space, enlightenment.

 

Hui Neng

courage is the measure

ieshia evans

 

Courage

is the measure

of our heartfelt participation

with life, with another, with a community,

a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily

to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those

things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending

vulnerabilities of those consequences. To be courageous is to seat

our feelings deeply in the body and in the world: to live up to

and into the necessities of relationships that often already

exist, with things we find we already care deeply

about: with a person, a future, a possibility

in society, or with an unknown that

begs us on and always has

begged us on.

 

David Whyte

you are ladybirds and the smell of a garden


 

Depending

on where you look,

what you touch, you are changing

all the time. The carbon inside you, accounting

for about 18 percent of your being, could have existed in any

number of creatures or natural disasters before finding

you. That particular atom residing somewhere

above your left eyebrow? It could well have

been a smooth, riverbed pebble

before deciding to call

you home.

 

You see,

you are not so soft after

all; you are rock and wave and

the peeling bark of trees, you are ladybirds

and the smell of a garden after the rain.

When you put your best foot forward,

you are taking the north side

of a mountain with

you.

 

Ella Frances Saunders