Darkness

has been given as

a nightshirt to sleep in.

Remember how human beings

were composed from water and dust

for blood and flesh with oily resins heated

in fire to make a skeleton. Then the soul, the divine

light, was breathed into human shapes. The work now is

to help our bodies become pure light. It may look like

this is not happening. But in a cocoon every bit

of worm-dissolving slime becomes silk.

As we take in light, each part

of us turns to

silk.

Let change —

even traumatic upheaval —

remind you that anything is possible.

When the dark cloud of chaos hangs

over you, let possibility be

the silver lining.

Maggie Smith

💔🎶🌞

The

clear wind

and the bright moon

demonstrate the

great truth.

Kusan Sunim

The

way of love is

not a subtle argument.

The door there is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles of their

freedom. How do they learn that?

They fall, and falling,

they’re given

wings.

Rumi

Not

coveting a single

thing is the greatest gift

you can give to the

universe.

Kodo Sawaki Roshi

There are names,

such as Buddha, God, or Heavenly Way;

but they all point to the mind which is nothingness.

Live always with the mind of total nothingness,

and the evils that come to you will

dissipate completely.

Munan