Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
Bernie GlassmanStichwörter: humor buddhism zen seriousness lightness
We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.
Kenny WernerStichwörter: zen philosophy-of-life mastery-of-oneself
We have to make a consideration: emotional states are deeply influenced by external events, and here lies the problem. Since the external events are unstable, namely, that they are in perpetual change - a situation that Buddhist tradition defines
as “impermanence” - they are very difficult to be managed, and this bring people to panic.
This difficulty to experience a reality in which nothing is permanent, that all is in constant motion- change, belongs to the human incapacity to accept the discontinuity of an occurrence of events that are always unpredictable and new.
Impermanence is a principle that is a natural thing, but, in relation to the social and interhuman fields, this becomes a problem: especially in the last ten years, we can witness scenarios where instability, turbulence and uncertainty, frantically increase and continue to increase. Instability and change are perceivable everywhere - from the personal interaction between people to economic instability: in poor words, we don’t know what the future will bring to us and we feel a continuous pressure.
People feel a need for safety and stability, but this is an impossible thing in the conditions in which society finds itself, and here lies one of the main reasons why tensions, anxiety, and panic have became common situations.
Stichwörter: zen awareness present-moment gurdjieff mindfulness-practice
And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it without the least alteration? He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work can be done.
Eugen HerrigelHere, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.
Michael CunninghamStichwörter: perception zen moment
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalStichwörter: present buddhism peace zen appreciation meditation awareness present-moment
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalStichwörter: reality buddhism eternity time zen change miracles awareness permanence impermanence changelessness
The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalStichwörter: consciousness truth perception reality buddhism zen self-awareness meditation awareness enlightenment know-thyself objectivity objectivity-subjectivity search-for-truth subject-and-object
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalStichwörter: inspirational truth happiness reality acceptance buddhism inspiration identity zen spirituality self-awareness meditation awareness desire being know-thyself
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.
Stichwörter: life consciousness truth reality acceptance buddhism purpose meaning-of-life zen meaning self-awareness self-knowledge awareness perfection purpose-of-life awakening know-thyself
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