Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.
Fernando PessoaStichwörter: life philosophy nihilism effort meditation tao useless flux
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
Amit RayStichwörter: religion self-discovery meditation lifestyle anxiety meditate meditation-and-inner-strength meditation-quotes
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences
Sharon SalzbergStichwörter: buddhism compassion mindfulness meditation
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.
Sharon SalzbergStichwörter: science buddhism self-help mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain
Sharon SalzbergStichwörter: truth love education compassion meditation
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati BhagavatiStichwörter: soul self-help spirituality meditation spiritual-life spiritual-path personal-transformation quiet-mind
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati BhagavatiStichwörter: spiritual soul spirituality meditation karma spiritual-growth spiritual-life personal-transformation karmic
Emotional baggage,” which is carried over from the past, colors our perceptions. Likewise, past conclusions and beliefs, based on reasoning that may or may not have been accurate, also tint our perception of reality. Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
Emotional reactions can be unreasonable, and reason can be flawed. It’s difficult to have deep confidence in either one, especially when they’re often at war with each other. But the universal mind exists in the instant, in a moment beyond time, and it sees the universe as it literally is. It’s the universe perceiving itself. It is, moreover, something we can have absolute confidence in, and with that confidence, we can maintain a genuinely positive attitude.
Stichwörter: reason mind emotion yoga meditation positive-attitude ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do universal-mind
Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still suffer from starvation and war. The difference between the past and the present is the difference between throwing rocks and shooting missiles. We are still in conflict. Suffering on a fundamental level hasn’t ceased. But we nevertheless persist in the notion that if we just amass a bit more knowledge, we’ll all be o.k. Maybe a new philosophy will do the trick, or a new system of government. But all of this has been tried many times.
Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It’s the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation—a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.
Stichwörter: wisdom perception knowledge humanity philosophy yoga meditation transformation ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do
Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pencil carefully or nervously so that it doesn’t break? Do we bother to pay attention to what we’re doing? How do we sharpen the same pencil when we’re angry or in a hurry? Is it the same as when we’re calm or unhurried?
Even the smallest movement discloses something about the person executing the action because it is the person who’s actually performing the deed. In other words, action doesn’t happen by itself, we make it happen, and in doing so we leave traces of ourselves on the activity. The mind and body are interrelated.
Stichwörter: mind self self-expression yoga meditation body ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do mind-and-body-unification
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