Sublime

“Although it can be useful to think of mindfulness as ‘being with things as they really are’, it is in fact more accurate, and more helpful for our purposes, to understand basic mindfulness practice as a way of looking that merely fabricates a little less than our habitual ways of looking.” -Rob Burbea, Seeing That Frees

Ajahn Amaro

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.

The goal of Zen is to awaken to life as it is, rather than stay in the comparative dream world of our ideas about it.

This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.

Surrender control, and embrace emergence

The second category of the Great Eastern Sun principle is known as showing the path.

Haribhadra