detachment from entanglements

no want is the greatest bliss

 

Severing entanglements

means detachmeht from entanglements

in contrived mundane concerns. Relinquish concerns

and your body will not be under a strain,

contrive nothing and your mind will

naturally be calm.

 

As serenity and simplicity

develop day by day, worldly defilement

lessens day by day. As your behavior departs further

and further from the mundane, your mind

becomes closer and closer

to the Way.

 

…As long as we do not

initiate anything, others will naturally

not get involved; even if others initiate something,

we do not get involved. As past entangelments gradually

stop, do not form new involvements. Ritual socializing

and opportunistic intercourse naturally become

remote, and you become unburdened

and at peace. Only then can you

practice the Way.

 

Treatise on Sitting Forgetting

translated by Thomas Cleary

 

taken away by random thoughts

stop it

 

The reason you

do not understand is just

because you are taken away by random

thoughts twenty-four hours a day. Since you

want to learn business, you fall in love with things

you see and fondly pursue things you read;

over time, you get continuously involved.

How can you manage to work on

enlightenment then?

 

Foyan

 

not afraid to forget who you are

morten brekkevold

 

When you are not

afraid to forget who you are,

life in the kitchen, or life in the office,

might contain huge and overwhelming happiness.

Everything you look at, the door, the walls meeting in the

corner of the room, the light shining on the cell phone, might be

so alive that it looks back. Other people might not be who you

thought they were. Family members might be as fresh

and surprising as strangers. And you, whom you

have only apparently known all your life,

might be fresh and surprising

to yourself too.

 

John Tarrant

bring me the rhinoceros

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