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updated 2mo ago
updated 2mo ago
I couldn’t distract myself by reading about practice rather than doing it.
Practice is a matter of life and death. This life is our practice. This practice is our life—because it’s all about birth and death. And we’ve all been born, and we’re all going to die.
What is the effort that daffodils make in order to bloom?
to feel the joy and the love that can come from living from the source of your being.
to see buddha in everyone and, of course, to see buddha in ourselves.
The role of mindfulness is to keep the mind properly grounded in the present moment in a way that will keep you on the path.
If we are a little more alert, we can catch it before it’s done instead of regretting it after it’s done. If we are a little more alert, we can see the possibility of something wholesome that we can do and decide to do it.
Our practice is to help people, and to help people, we find out how to practice our way in each moment.
Even though you sit trying to have the right posture and counting your breath, it may still be lifeless zazen because you’re just following instructions; you’re not kind enough with yourself.
we can’t breathe in once and stay alive. And we can’t wake up once and stay awake. Pretty soon we go back to sleep again. So this practice of ours is a never-ending, continuous effort. The never-ending continuous joy of waking up and waking up.