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This principle is singlefold: that is, it says that body and mind are able to work together harmoniously.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
May I be loving, open, and aware in this moment. If I cannot be loving, open, and aware in this moment, may I be kind. If I cannot be kind, may I be nonjudgmental. If I cannot be nonjudgmental, may I not cause harm. If I cannot not cause harm, may I cause the least harm possible. Larry Yang
Rick Hanson • Neurodharma
One Zen concept that came up time and again in Jackson’s coaching practices was the Japanese word shoshin, which roughly translates as ‘beginner’s mind’. Shoshin refers to a state of mind in which we approach every task and situation with the curiosity, openness and humility of a beginner.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
The second category of the Great Eastern Sun principle is known as showing the path.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
This koan has always encouraged me to trust the difficulties I run up against and the slowness with which I work with them. It is as if an impasse has its own journey built into it, a journey that belongs only to that impasse and which is a unique path to freedom. Each step in the dark turns out in the end to have been on course after all.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
He came up with the term “basic goodness.” It’s a brilliant choice of words that could have come only from someone who had not only knowledge but confidence, compassion, wisdom, and a karmic link to the Dakpo Kagyu lineage that can be authenticated and traced back twenty-five hundred years.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
