fight to open every closed door

chet phillips

 

Gradually I began to understand

that it does not matter very much what problem,

whether big or small, is tormenting us; the only thing that

matters is that we be tormented, that we find a ground for being

tormented. In other words, that we exercise our minds in

order to keep certainty from turning us into idiots,

that we fight to open every closed door

we find in front of us.

 

Nikos Kazantzakis

 

you are taking sides as you practice

gregory colbert

 

Mindfulness is not just

watching things coming and going.

As the Buddha said, when mindfulness becomes a

governing principle in the mind, it sees things that are unskillful

and it works toward getting rid of them. It sees things that are

skillful and works toward giving rise to them. It actively

gets involved in making things arise and

making things pass away.

 

So you are taking sides

as you practice. Hopefully, you’re taking sides

with the right side – right view and all the way down

to right concentration – because it really

does make a difference.

 

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

set an example of self-improvement