Posts Tagged "being"
Letting the heart break open…
Letting the heart break open awakens us to the mystery of love-that we can’t help loving others, in spite of the pain they cause us, for no other reason than they move and touch us in ways that we can never fully comprehend. Indeed if those we love perfectly matched our ideal dreams, they would not touch us so deeply. What we love is not just their pure being, but also their heart’s...
Read MoreBe As You Are
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required. “God dwells in you, as you, and you don’t have to ‘do’ anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state.” Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,...
Read MoreOn a Day When the Wind is Perfect
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere, both caress the earth with great tenderness. There is a breeze that can enter the soul. This love I know plays a drum. ...
Read MoreBeing Easy….
Easy is right. Begin right, and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way and forget the going is easy. —Chuang-Tzu, The Inner Chapters, Gia Feng and Jane...
Read MoreIt’s What We Are
Beneath the seething sea of feelings, sense impressions, thoughts and interactions the ground of being rests. Like bedrock on the ocean floor it forms a container for the psyche. It’s the source of the “something more” we’re always looking for. It’s here, not somewhere different. It’s now, not tomorrow or next year. Sinking into its support, we find...
Read MoreA Frightening Conclusion
I have come to a frightening conclusion That I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis...
Read MoreToo Lazy
Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. —Ryokan “…that less and less do you need to force things, until you finally arrive at...
Read MoreAloneness…
Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss, I am given unimaginable gifts; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee from pursues me. Each condition I welcome transforms me And becomes itself transformed Into its radiant jewel-like essence. I bow to the...
Read MoreIn the Still Point
In the still point between moments is the infinite possibility of potential available to express as form. Potential is the vast possibility of the universe intrinsic within energy. Potential, allied with intention, steps forward from the great unknown, becoming source for realizing this moment of desire and dream, this moment of being and becoming. Form is the creative manifestation of...
Read MoreA Meditation and Psychotherapy Story
Two friends met at a cafe one day and began to talk over tea. They told each other of the dissatisfaction in their lives, how life was not what either had expected, how despite their best efforts, they seldom woke up happy in the morning, how they did not want to feel this way for the rest of their lives. One said things were so bad he was thinking about going to see a psychotherapist; the other...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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