approaches

There may be only one mountain top but there are endless approach roads and partial maps. (Clark, 2011)

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invisible realities

Free Yourself from Ego

Even if we have a well-organized outer life, it can be very difficult for us to find inner happiness because we can never be satisfied so long as we have not cut the attachments due to ego. There is no end to it — it wants more and more — without any limit.

The ego is insatiable. So it seems necessary to work on that, to free ourselves from ego, with the help of teachings, especially the Buddha's teachings ... (There) we will find all kinds of ways and means of developing peace both externally and internally.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "Invisible Realities"

graceful blisters?

In life as in dance: grace glides on blistered feet. (ALICE ABRAMS)

No pain, no gain.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

Arising and Passing

February 15, 2011, Tricycle Daily Dharma
Arising and Passing
Whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, gross or subtle, every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

—S.N. Goenka, “Finding Sense in Sensation”

wasted life

"Don't waste your life". Our lives are made of days and hours, and each hour is precious. Have we wasted our hours and our days? Are we wasting our lives? (Thich Nhat Hahn)

Wisebrain.org

Wisebrain.org: "Welcome to WiseBrain, bringing you skillful means for happiness, love, and wisdom – from the fertile common ground of psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice."

maps

The map (object) is not the territory (concrete referent).
I live in a world of home made maps.
I am free to draw and redraw those maps at will.
I am also free to ignore them.
So much freedom when you think about thinking!

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mindfully responding

Normal life is subject to an ongoing and ever changing set of causes and conditions rooted in parts by nature, nurture and by random events. These channel our automatic reactions and mindful responses to external and internal stimuli. The ever changing nature of the system allows ‘you’ to mindfully respond this way rather than that. The freedom to be creative and original is therefore rooted in being mindful. (Clark, Jan 2011)

primrose path to peace

The reality which can be described is not the real reality. There is only spin from human minds. And all human minds are erratically conditioned by time, place and parents and so are chaotic, jumbled and trippling with inconsistencies. Pose value and spin, even when perpetrated with integrity, is all there is. Or is it? (Clark, 2000).

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moments

The Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote in his journal that we never remember days, we remember only moments.