let your eyes get clear enough

inside the presence

Having anxieties and feeling sad

about being alive is like piling black mud

and garbage on your head. The mud slides over

your eyes and the rubbish infects them. You can’t

see and you get sick. Everyone does this at some

time. Try to stop doing it. Let your eyes get

clear enough to see the beauty

around you.

O giver of worriedness and grief,

remove me from my being. Give me the peace

of not-being. This prayer, if you can pray it, will wash

the mud off your head. There is a beloved who pours muddy

water over the head of the lover, and there is a lover who

says, I cannot see you with my eyes, but the drops

of muddy water on my eyelashes are filled

with the rose of your face.

Bahauddin, father of Rumi

The Drowned Book

as soon as you sense obstruction

As soon as you sense

any lingering or obstruction,

all of it is false imagining. Just make

your mind clean and free, like space,

like a mirror, like the sun

in the sky.

Yuanwu

zen letters

looking for nothing in particular

navesh chitrakar

Looking for

nothing in particular,

wholly without ambition,

good-naturedly doing not doing,

you arrive at the center of yourself

and find the whole universe

waiting there.

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 52

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the highest good is like water

they accepted life as a gift

The highest

good is like water,

which benefits all things and

contends with none. It flows in low

places that others disdain, and

thus it is close to

the tao.

In living,

choose your ground well.

In thought, stay deep in the heart.

In relationships, be generous.

In speaking, hold to the truth.

In leadership, be organized.

In work, do your best.

In action, be

timely.

If you compete with no one,

no one can compete with you.

The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 8

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a long-awaited change is at hand

tjitske kamphuis

A breakthrough.

Do not be drawn back

into bad habits.

The arrival of the hexagram Kuai indicates that a long-awaited change is at hand. A difficulty that has oppressed you over a long period is now about to dissolve. It is important to respond in the proper way.

There is a temptation on obtaining relief to fall into the traps of the ego: pride at having dispersed the trouble, self-righteousness about having triumphed through correctness, anger at one who we think was the source of the problem, or a desire to remain free of all difficulty in the future. None of these responses is appropriate to the situation at hand.

What is needed now is resoluteness: a firm commitment to continuing the battle for good and to the self-examination that makes all good things possible. This is not a time to lapse back into negative mental habits and enjoy the “vacation” provided by the breakthrough. Do not rest on your laurels, but push forward, deepening your inner strength and your resistance to the influence of inferiors, both in yourself and others.

Strengthen those around you by setting an example of self-improvement and self-correction. Great progress and good fortune are available now to one who makes proper use of the opening.

The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 43, Kuai / Breakthrough (Resoluteness)