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a fertile and fruitful land


 

The heart may be likened to soil.

Soil may be fertile or a barren desert, but the soil

which is fertile is that which bears fruit. It is that which

is chosen by living beings to dwell in, although many are lost

in the soil of the desert, and lead in it a life of grief and loneliness.

Man has both in him, for he is the final manifestation. He may

let his heart be a desert where everyone abides hungry and

thirsty, or he may make it a fertile and fruitful land

where food is provided for hungry souls, the

children of the earth, strong or weak,

rich or poor, who always hunger

for love and sympathy.

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

attitude is the secret of life

 

you only have to set it down

the proper response to conflict

 

You

don’t have to

straighten anything out 

in your mind. You only have

to set it down if it

isn’t good.

 

Your

enlightenment is

fully present at every moment

of your life. If you perceive something

between you and that, nothing more

need be done other than

to let go of it upon

observing

it.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 6

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stand shoulder to shoulder and go on

stop your search

 

If you make slogans

based on words and sprout interpretations

based on objects, then you fall into the bag of antique curios,

and you will never be able to find this true realm

of absolute awareness beyond

sentiments.

 

At this stage you are free

to go forward in the wild field without choosing,

picking up whatever comes to hand: the meaning of the ancestral

teachers is clear in all that grows there. What’s more, the thickets of green

bamboo and the masses of yellow flowers and the fences and walls

and tiles and pebbles are inanimate things

teaching the dharma. 

 

The water birds and the

groves of trees expound the truths of suffering,

emptiness, and selflessness. Based on the one true reality,

they extend objectless compassion, and from the great

jewel light of nirvana they reveal uncontrived,

surpassingly wondrous powers.

 

Changqing said,

“When you meet a companion

on the Path, stand shoulder to shoulder and

go on: then your lifetime of learning

will be completed.”

 

Yuanwu

zen letters

🪷

all good comes when we are innocent

kirvan baldassari

 

In the

very center of each

of us there dwells an innocent

and divine spirit. If we allow ourselves to

be guided by it in every situation, we can never

go wrong. Wu Wang comes to remind us that

we must actively disengage our egos

before we can obtain the vast

rewards that come from

living in a state of

innocence.

 

The nature

of the ego is that when

we exercise it, it takes us out

of the present. When we engage in

ambitions, anxieties, or anticipations,

our ego is skipping ahead, and we miss the

guidance of the Creative in the present moment.

When we engage in anger, judgment, and condemnation —

whether toward ourselves or others — our ego is looking

backward, and we cannot see the Sage’s clear solution

to the present situation. In either case, the result is

misfortune. Only by stilling the ego and accepting

life in its entirety can we become innocent.

In this state we are receptive to the

help of the Higher Power and

can meet with good fortune

wherever we go.

 

You are

advised now to stop

looking forward and backward,

to abandon your ambitions, to disengage

from judgments and critical thinking. If a thought,

attitude, or action is not in accord with the principles of

acceptance, equanimity, humility, and gentleness,

do not indulge in it. The I Ching encourages you

to actively practice innocence. Because

the  ego is strong, you must make a

conscious and conscientious

effort to be innocent.

 

If you

willfully unstructure

your attitude, open your heart

to the Deity, and allow yourself to be

guided by that which is innocent

and pure, you will meet with

success in the coming

time.

 

The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 25, Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)

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