Buddha’s

teaching cannot be

attained by having ideas

or not having ideas. Only when

the mind of pure practice coincides

with the way will body and mind be calm.

If body and mind are not yet calm, they

will not be at ease. When body and

mind are not at ease, thorns

grow on the path of

realization.

 

So that

pure practice and

the way coincide, how should

we proceed? Proceed with the mind which

neither grasps nor rejects, the mind unconcerned

with name or gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma with the

thought that it is to benefit others…Do not practice buddha-dharma

for your own sake. Do not practice buddha-dharma for name and

gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain blissful reward.

Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain miraculous

effects. Practice buddha-dharma solely for

the sake of buddha-dharma.

This is the way.

 

Dogen

 

 

No want

is the greatest bliss.

It can be realized only by experience.

Even an emperor is no match

for a man with no

wants.

 

Ramana Maharshi

 

 

People of  

the Way are quiet and

still, within and 

without.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Hexagram 61

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We have to

allow ourselves to

realize that we are complete fools;

otherwise, we have nowhere

to begin.

 

Chögyam Trungpa

 

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Wear just

enough clothes to keep warm.

Eat only enough to stop the hunger-pang.

And as for your mind, let it work to recognize

who you are, and the Absolute, and that

this body will become food for

the forest crows.

 

Lalla

 

 

It would be

understandable, this week,

if you looked around and decided that

the world as we know it is wholly irredeemable.

It would be understandable if you were tempted to give up hope.

If the present feels too awful to bear, it can be helpful to look to the past

or the future instead. There’s wisdom to be found in history; there’s

hope to be found in the futures that don’t exist, but might

someday. This isn’t a means of escapism, but

a way  to find the strength to

keep going.

 

move forward together