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Refuge in Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
Refuge in Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
Refuge in Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
🙏 #Zen
No bodhisattva who is a true bodhisattva cherishes the idea of a self, a being, a life span, or a separated individuality.
—Diamond Sutra
No one is immune from suffering.
It visits us, we visit it, with regularity.
It is our human condition.
With full unexcelled enlightenment, we don’t exit from it, we enter fully into it.
Thus embracing life, owning life, the only life we have!
🙏 #Zen
The flavor of life, the stubbed toe, the glorious sunrise, exactly this is it.
We are not one. We are not two.
Just this is it.
Not kind of like this. Not sort of like this. Not partly like this.
Just this is it.
🙏 #Zen
A javelin
Thrown through
The bull’s eye
Bursting to
The other side
And lo
All are gone
Only clear
Luminosity
And
Each
Particular
A needle tip
A robin’s beak
A gown
#Zen 🙏
We have this one life, this one whole life!
It’s not me over here and the other things in my life over there
It’s not the path I’ve taken and other paths I might have taken
It’s not my interests at the expense of your interests
Just one whole life, everything!
#Zen 🙏
How much meditation is right?
If you’re new, 5 mins a day
With some experience, 30 minutes gives the time to go deeper.
Daily is helpful. Once in a while lacks momentum.
Change happens slowly over months and years. It alters one’s life - peace and balance.
Our practice must always be aim, expression, hitting the mark, falling short.
Each is independent of the other.
In this way, we should practice and actualize the living quick of time.
— Kosho Uchiyama
