Can We Embrace "Yes Buts?" Painting The Sidewalk Joan Tollifson - Stillness Speaks
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Can We Embrace "Yes Buts?" Painting The Sidewalk Joan Tollifson - Stillness Speaks
By staying with our raw sensory experience, we cease to see the world through our concepts and subsequent fears. We learn to meet our experience just as it is. A sound is just a sound; a sensation is just a sensation. Nothing more, nothing less. There is profound peace in this quality of presence.
Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
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[And I remember she told me once, I’ll never forget this, she said, “Look, Zen is just being present in the moment. That’s all, being fully present to what is.” She said, “This is Zen.” But she said, “But then sometimes you lose that, and you’re not present in the moment. And so Zen is just noticing that you’ve lost it and just coming back. And tha
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Likewise for those already on the path of training, if you have tasted the Dharma directly, had a glimpse of the Ox, redouble your efforts. It’s one thing to see it and a different thing to surrender ourselves to it fully. W... See more
Likewise for those already on the path of training, if you have tasted the Dharma directly, had a glimpse of the Ox, redouble your efforts. It’s one thing to see it and a different thing to surrender ourselves to it fully. W... See more
Message from Henry: Wound and Blessing
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don’t really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of
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The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it ... See more
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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Once again, what is required is a certain sense of honesty. Everything is already inherently complete, already fully Spirit. We are already as much as we will ever be. But the question is—do we know it? Have we realized it? If we have not, what is it that’s causing us to perceive otherwise? And if we have realized it, are we living it? Is it becomi
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