With thoughts clear,
sitting silently, wander into the
centre of the circle of wonder. This is
how you must penetrate
and study.
Posts Tagged → enlightenment
not to look for an alternative path
Heartbreak
asks us not to look for
an alternative path, because there
is no alternative path. It is an introduction
to what we love and have loved, an inescapable
and often beautiful question, something
and someone that has been with
us all along, asking us to be
ready for the ultimate
letting go.
a real tao in everyday activities
There is a true buddha
in family life; there is a real tao
in everyday activities. If people can
be sincere and harmonious, promoting
communication with a cheerful demeanor
and friendly words, that is much better
than formal meditation
practice.
being is born of emptiness
Returning to the root is
the movement of tao.
Quietness is how
it functions.
The ten thousand things
are born of being.
Being is born of
emptiness.
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the sage looks into her own heart
The tao is the law of nature,
which you can’t depart from for even one
instant. If you could depart from it, it wouldn’t be the tao.
Thus the mature person looks into her own heart and respects
what is unseen and unheard. Nothing is more manifest than
the hidden; nothing is more obvious than the unseen.
Thus the mature person pays attention to what
is happening in his inmost self.
honor comes to those who are correct