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this fleetingworld

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world

A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,

A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,

A flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream.

(Diamond Sutra)

reality zig zag

http://twitter.com/dodclark/status/11263013898

what to think

• What do you think about xxx?
• Hang on, I will look it up on Wikipedia
• But I want to know what ‘you’ think
• What for? My thoughts are just a subjective, media-soaked mush wrapped in a Scottish Presbyterian flag.

simple and difficult

Practice implores us to do the simplest yet most difficult thing: to sit still and simply be present. In meditation, we let whatever comes up, come up. We invite it in. We welcome all of it, including the resistance, the boredom, the judgments, and the endless spinning. We let it all come up and just watch it.

- Ezra Bayda “Reflect, Without Thinking” (Winter 2009)

know-where-you-going

Know Where You're Going

The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being. Suppose you’re eager to offer happiness, to make someone happy. That’s a good thing to do. But if you’re not happy, then you can’t do that. In order to make another person happy, you have to be happy yourself. So there’s a link between doing and being. If you don’t succeed in being, you can’t succeed in doing. If you don’t feel that you’re on the right path, happiness isn’t possible. This is true for everyone; if you don’t know where you’re going, you suffer. It’s very important to realize your path and see your true way.

- Thich Nhat Hanh from "The Heart of The Matter" (Winter 2009)

higher than thought

"Is there anything higher than thought?
Yes, meditation is higher than thought."
(Chandogya Upanishad)

Oprah and Thich

Thich Nhat Hanh: I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation. People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Oprah-Talks-to-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/1

only one way

Wash out your brain waves, empty your mind
Flush out the bullshit, see what you find.

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thought tigers

Once upon a time there was an artist who lived in a cave.
One day he painted a ferocious tiger on the wall.
Now every time he sees it he feels afraid.
Our thoughts are like painted tigers in our mind.