Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people.
– Huangbo Xiyun
“Observe things as they are …
Tag: mind
No matter how hard I look I can’t find any evidence of free will, yet never fail to feel the full presence of thoughts and actions springing forth spontaneously and unbidden out of unconsciousness. Aware consciousness seems nothing more than a silent bookkeeper meticulously keeping track of everything after the fact.
An exhibition of paintings on emptiness “Emptiness is form, form is emptiness.”— “Heart Sutra”
ABHAY K. is an Indian diplomat, painter, poet, editor, …
Abhay K.: Shunyata
Let what comes, come. Let what goes, go.
These days it seems to me that practice is nothing without all the vicissitudes of life and vice versa.
Practice in the midst of life.
And remember that Zen does not belong to anyoneneither to you, nor to me,nor to those who claim it,nor to the elders of the mountains, nor to the …
Listen, Remember, Free Yourself
When you find your own mind you realise the universal in the particular and the particular in the universal.
Know your own mind just as it is.
– Ryokan
This pretty much sums up where I’m at right now…
It’s over, the “buddhas and patriarchs” disease
That once gripped my chest.
Now I’m just an ordinary man
With a clean slate.
What’s here now? 