Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone
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Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone
When the pasture of your mind is large enough, you don’t know what is over the next hill. Your
We’re able to live with a rhythmic ease as our need to be anyone other than who we are vanishes.
Fritz Perls captured the mood perfectly in his oft-repeated catchphrase, “Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
Our original, still mind is always here, but our worries and fears leak all over everything, so our original self goes unnoticed.
If we can maintain our ability to just be with whatever happens—even as our mind becomes increasingly swampy, constantly pouring over the past and projecting into the future—at some point the pollution settles and an even deeper clarity than before arises.
To hear sounds with the whole body and mind, to see forms with the whole body and mind, one understands them intimately. —Dogen
If we see this dissatisfaction in an attentive, nonjudgmental way, our slumping usually corrects itself.
Being “in the mountains meeting the mountains” means you are meeting your true interbeing nature.
That heat he was experiencing actually helps us move beyond the small, complaining self from which our chatter arises.