Do not ever fight or argue,
because for God there are no fights
or arguments. For that One everything is love,
everything is in the form of love, compassion,
and truth. May God provide you with
the blessings and grace to live
in that state.
Posts Tagged → happiness
just observe and you’ll laugh aloud
Just look right here.
Don’t seek transcendent enlightenment.
Just observe and observe: suddenly
you’ll laugh aloud.
nurturing simplicity in oneself
Simplicity is something
that our fundamental nature inherently
possesses. If we prepare in advance and nurture it
within ourselves, then wherever we happen to be, whether in
wealth and high rank, or poverty and low status, in foreign lands,
or in difficult circumstances, we deal with whatever situation we
are in by retaining our simplicity there. It is not increased
when we do great deeds or reduced when we are
dwelling in obscurity. Wherever we go,
we are at peace, because we have
found simplicity.
note to self: own your faults openly
This revelation:
Do not scold anyone for
a mistake you might have made.
Do not discipline children until you
have grown up. Do not taunt or find fault
or call people names. Turn those
judgements inward. Own your
faults openly.
we might as well stop struggling
Milarepa,
the twelfth-century Tibetan
yogi who sang wonderful songs about
the proper way to meditate, said that the mind
has more projections than there are dust motes in a
sunbeam and that even hundreds of spears couldn’t put
an end to that. As meditators we might as well stop struggling
against our thoughts and realize that honesty and humor
are far more inspiring and helpful than any
kind of solemn religious striving
for or against
anything.