super zen
- The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with alg... See more
lisa added 23d ago
- There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be,... See more
from Tastes of magic by Kasra
lisa added 1mo ago
Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.
Everything changes;
everything is interconnected;
pay attention to it.
lisa added 2mo ago
Zen is, of course, a continuation of the old dhyana yoga, in which one just sits silently and allows one’s thoughts to go away by their own dead weight.
from On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings by Wendy K. Pirsig
lisa added 2mo ago
- “Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things y... See more
from The Road to Self-Renewal
lisa added 4mo ago
But, meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
from Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
lisa added 5mo ago
lisa added 5mo ago
- "In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life."
from Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harriss
lisa added 5mo ago
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