If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-0, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is
Drinking it!
#DTSuzuki
An imagined entity desires to become an enlightened imagined entity. What's the point?
It is like trying to measure space.
Yet, this will continue until such time as the distinction is made between this that I am and that that I appear to be.
#WuHsin
Since before time, l have been free.
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass.
Sacred tresholds on our journey.
Birth and death are a game of hide-and seek.
#ThichNhatHanh
There is no forest,
There is no cave,
There is no mountaintop
Where one can hide From oneself.
#WuHsin
The Buddha taught:
Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today.
To wait till tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who dwells in mindfulness night and day, 'the one who knows the better way to live alone.
#ThichNhatHanh
Every time you drink your tea, you have an eternity to enjoy drinking your tea.
The clouds stop running, the wind stops flying, and time stands still. The clouds are present in your tea. The wind is present in your tea. I am also in your tea.
#ThichNhatHanh
"Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that, and all will be well!"
#Buddha
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
#LaoTzu
Look, and it can't be seen.
Listen, and it can't be heard.
Reach, and it can't be grasped.
#LaoTzu
Tao Te Ching
This is It
Always we hope
Someone else has the answer, Some other place it will be better, Some other time It will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer, No other place will be better, And it has already turned out.
By #LaoTzu
Outer eyes are the inner eyes reflection,
For outer eyes are under their direction.
#Rumi
When a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer; but when a winebibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern.
In everything we do, it is our hearts that make the difference, not our outer appearance.
Sufis do not judge other people on how they look or who they are. When a Sufi stares at someone, he keeps both eyes closed, instead opens a third eye — the eye that sees the inner realm.
#ShamsTabrizi
I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
#Rumi
Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many.
Your life is abundant.
#Mooji