John Tarrant : Articles
as the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh puts it, we “keep our appointment with life.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
Tunneling for Sunlight: Twenty-One Maxims of Living Wisdom from Buddhism and Japanese Psychology to Cope with Difficult Times
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The rarity and preciousness of human life. The inevitability of death. The awesome and indelible power of our actions. The inescapability of suffering.
Norman Fischer • Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
While emptiness is what’s left when you take away the thoughts and beliefs that you have constructed around an event, not knowing is a way to move in the absence of such thoughts. It’s a creative possibility. Not knowing who you are allows you to meet an event without pretending it is something else—something that happened before. Then you might ex
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