Rob Tourtelot
@rtourtelot
Rob Tourtelot
@rtourtelot
By Andrea Cohen
-Zen priest Shohaku Okamura
"Perhaps going in the direction of what we call truth is, at least, to 'unlie,' not to lie. Our lives are buildings made up of lies. We have to lie to live. But to write we must try to unlie. Something renders going in the direction of truth and dying almost synonymous. We cannot read about it, we cannot bear it, we cannot say it; all we can think
... See moreCan you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?
The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: “What’s the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
When I practice 'being conscious of being conscious', I don't just watch my experience, I find myself appreciating my experience.
I’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist