So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest.
Trinka PoliteTags: poetry women-poets spiritual-journey
I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?
T. Scott McLeodTags: love acceptance buddhism journey meditation enlightenment spiritual-growth loving-yourself the-journey spiritual-journey loving-one-s-self personal-journey
I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.
T. Scott McLeodTags: buddhism peace zen suffering meditation confusion enlightenment struggling being-lost spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey finding-one-s-way overcoming-confusion
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. Scott McLeodTags: buddhism peace zen suffering meditation enlightenment awakening struggles zen-buddhism spiritual-journey the-end-of-suffering the-end-of-struggling
It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.
T. Scott McLeodTags: love buddhism peace zen suffering transcendence meditation enlightenment zen-buddhism spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey
Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?
T. Scott McLeodTags: buddhism meditation enlightenment presence now the-power-of-now zen-buddhism spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey
Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.
T. Scott McLeodTags: buddhism zen spirituality enlightenment awakening zen-buddhism spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey
Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.
T. Scott McLeodTags: enlightenment seeking awakening spiritual-journey
It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.
T. Scott McLeodTags: enlightenment spiritual-journey
Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
T. Scott McLeodTags: buddhism zen spirituality meditation enlightening enlightenment awakening the-power-of-now spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey
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