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“being free and easy in the market-place.”
This means being grounded anywhere, in any circumstances, neither above nor below, simply present, but fully present.
And Zen practitioners have the wholly irreverent and wonderfully provocative saying, “If you meet the Buddha, kill him,” which means that any conceptual attachments to ...
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It is also the groundedness of the base, rooted in rock, a willingness to sit and be with all conditions, such as fog, rain, snow, and cold or, in terms of the mind, depression, angst, confusion, pain, and suffering.
Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
And what could be more important than to give our very life, in the fullness of its possibilities and its very actualities, often unseen, unnoticed, and unused, back to ourselves
It is either “Wherever you go, there you are,” or “Wherever you go, there you aren’t.” Both are true to a degree in any moment. But we can fiddle with the degreeness, and so reclaim who and what we already are, and always have been, right here, right now … only temporarily forgotten.
ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy—with ourselves and the world—underneath any apparent separation between the two.
out of the wind of our afflictive emotions and the agitations of an unquiet and continually judging mind, revealing as well
that these cannot but abate on their own if we cease denying them or attempting to shut them down,
The deepest of bows to you for the courage and perseverance involved in throwing yourself wholeheartedly into this adventure of a lifetime.
With every breath we are continually invited to embody and therefore actualize the possible more consistently, and more ardently, more compassionately, with greater appreciation for the clarity, sanity, and well-being that are always and already right beneath our noses, and within all of us …
encouraging those seeds of our truest nature to grow and flower and—for the sake of all beings near and far, known and unknown—nourish our lives and work and world from moment to moment, and from day to day.
