December 2011
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“My actions are my only true belongings.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via heartmindspirit
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The Buddha's Words on Kindness (Metta Sutta)
This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech. Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied. Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful, Not proud and demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing That...
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adventurelil:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest…
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tonybloggs:
Eihei Dogen:
If this one day in the lifetime of a hundred years is blogged away lost, will you ever get your hands on it again?
“There is no substitute for finding the inwardly-generated happiness…we know,...”
– Christina Feldman (via calm-abiding
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mushotoku: William Butler Yeats : Meru (1935) →
sabbathstheater:
Meru
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that…
“The nightingale singing among the flowers warble Marvelous Law; all the birds...”
– Shosan (1579-1655)
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Zen
Each moment stands
alone.
Untouched, in quiet
solitude;
strung like pearls of unstained
luminosity
Separate from those
before
and
after.
~12/12/’11
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