try to praise the mutilated world

travel light

Try

to praise

the mutilated world. 

Remember June’s long days,

 and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. 

The nettles that methodically overgrow 

the abandoned homesteads

of exiles. 

You

must praise

the mutilated world. 

You watched the stylish yachts

and ships;  one of them had a long trip

ahead of it,  while salty oblivion awaited others. 

You’ve seen the refugees going nowhere, 

you’ve heard the executioners

sing joyfully. 

You

should praise

the mutilated world. 

Remember the moments when

we were together  in a white room and

the curtain fluttered.  Return in thought to

the concert where music flared. You

gathered acorns in the park in

autumn  and leaves eddied

over the earth’s

scars. 

Praise

the mutilated world

 and the gray feather a thrush lost,

 and the gentle light that strays

and vanishes  and

returns.

Adam Zagajewski

i have arrived, i am already home

miguel claro

All we have to do is

be ourselves, fully and authentically.

We don’t have to run after anything. We already

contain the whole cosmos. We simply return to ourselves

through mindfulness, and touch the peace and joy

that are already present within us

and all around us.

I have arrived.

I am already home.

There is nothing to do.

Aimlessness, nonattainment,

is a wonderful practice.

Thich Nhat Hanh

leaving the way to the way

hexagram 43, kuai / breakthrough (resoluteness)

Forget all ideas

of accomplishing something —

in your practice and everywhere

else. Everything is already

accomplished.

If this sounds

like a tricky idea to you,

the flaw is in your understanding

of reality, not in reality

itself.

Allowing nature

to manifest is the way

of the Way. By setting aside

our ambitions and leaving

the Way to the Way,

we perfect the

Way.

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 43

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everything is buddha

on this date a buddha was born

There is no distinction

between heaven and earth, man and woman,

teacher and disciple. Sometimes a man bows to a woman;

sometimes a woman bows to a man. Sometimes the disciple bows

to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple. A master

who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Sometimes the master and disciple bow together

to Buddha. Sometimes we may bow

to cats and dogs.

In your big mind,

everything has the same value.

Everything is Buddha himself. You see something

or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to

each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there

is Buddhahood. Then Buddha bows to Buddha,

and you bow to yourself. This is

the true bow.

Shunryu Suzuki

zen mind, beginner’s mind

magnificent things are possible

the american revolution

Devotion to truth

enables a revolution.

The hexagram Ko announces the arrival of a time of revolution. A set of conditions, internal or external or both, is ready to pass away in favor of a more beneficial situation. What enables this transformation is your conscious and vigorous adherence to correct thought and behavior.

No revolution in outer things is possible without a prior revolution in one’s inner way of being. Whatever change you aspire to in your affairs must be preceded by a change in heart, and active deepening and strengthening of your resolve to meet every event with equanimity, detachment, and innocent goodwill. When this spiritual poise is achieved within, magnificent things are possible without.

The revolutions of others are enabled also when we refine the fire of goodness and truth inside ourselves. Sincere commitment to higher things travels outward in powerful waves from the superior person, and all those around are affected by this. Indisputably, to lead one’s inner self to truth and peace is to lead the outer world to truth and peace. A beneficial revolution is assured to one who takes this path now.

The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 49, Ko / Revolution

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