What is
the difference between
a monk and a husband? What is
the difference between a priest and a
layperson? I accept that this world is terrible
and full of suffering, and I also enjoy
happiness when it comes to me.
As long as I am with Tao,
distinctions are
superfluous.
We can
aspire to be kind
right in the moment,
to relax and open our heart and
mind to what is in front of us right in
the moment. Now is the time. If there’s
any possibility for enlightenment,
it’s right now, not at
some future
time.
Pema Chödrön
Seventy-eight awkward years —
a clownish lot. The mud-ball trots
the ocean floor. In June,
snowflakes.
There is an excess
in spiritual searching
that is profound ignorance.
Let that ignorance be our teacher.
The Friend breathes into one
who has no breath.
A deep silence revives the listening
and the speaking of those two
who meet on the riverbank.
Like the ground turning green in a spring wind,
like birdsong beginning inside the egg.
Like this universe coming into existence,
the lover wakes, and whirls
in a dancing joy,
then kneels down
in praise.
Counsel
others as the Sage counsels
you: through making an example
of correctness, through quiet
perseverance, and through
gentleness.
sixth changing line,
Hexagram 50: Ting / The Caldron
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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