may all beingsand all life, in every direction
be happy, be peaceful
and at ease
may we be free
free from fear
from anger
from delusion
from attachment
may we be free
from suffering
~j
#metta #lovingkindness #meditation #mantra #prayer
meditations
just this! just This!
just this! just This!~j
Don’t prolong the past,
Don’t invite the future,
Don’t alter your innate wakefulness,
Don’t fear appearances.
Apart from that,
there is not a damn thing!
~ Dzogchen Master Patrul Rinpoche
(1808-1887)
#tibetan #buddhism #BuddhistQuotes #JustThis #zen #enso #EnsoArt #JMWart
together we wake up…
Somewhere this very moment,
babies are born, fathers are dying, mothers are grieving.
Yet, pervading all is a
groundless awareness,
delicate and strong at the same time. Everything becomes we,
a beating heart with a
transparent, radiant smile.
And we are awake
~Judith Simmer-Brown
our needed love…
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Peace Day…
“They make a wasteland they call it peace.”~ Tacitus
do we want peace?
if yes, then we begin today in this moment with this very breath to be peace. we do this through gentleness in word and action, kindness born out of a desire to serve the common good, planting seeds of kindness and compassion now, benefiting the present moment and our present relationships, while contributing to a better tomorrow for all of life.
this doesn’t happen in the future, it happens now. we do this to honor the life we have been given, living peace now, which is the future.
~j
#PeaceDay
karma…
we rarely if ever can escape the consequences of our actions…how else can we learn? be open to learning, open to growing, open to change. accept with gratitude the opportunity to make new choices that are beneficial for you and all life. that opportunity, just like your life, is a gift. ~j “smile, breathe, and go slowly…” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#karma #consequences #choices #change #grace #opportunity #learning #growth #life #wisdom #gratitude
listening…
if what is presented in Buddhism -that we are interconnected and all things are impermanent and changing – is indeed true, then our most grateful and honorable response is to aspire to and practice toward authentic engagement with life. in other words…Presence. to be Present, we can practice a most beneficial skill…Listening. and the first step toward skillful listening is to stop talking.
~j
#RightListening #StopTheChatter #presence #relationships #communication #practice #listening #authenticity #ThisMoment #impermanence #interconnection #change #life #meditation #Buddhism
be still…
just as a lake when stilled reflects the luminous moon, so do we when stilled reflect the vast, luminous nature of being.~j
#CalmAbiding #stillness #silence #NotReactionInsteadThoughtfulAction #zen #mindfulness #meditation
wake up…
“The teachings of Buddhism are directed at people who don’t have a lot of time to waste. That includes all of us, whether we’re aware of it or not. From the point of view of the teachings, thinking that we have ample time to do things later is the greatest myth, the greatest hang-up, and the greatest poison. That, along with our continual, deep-seated tendency to try to get away from what we are doing, clouds our perceptions and our thinking.
If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a longing, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop—everything. If we knew we were going to go deaf tomorrow, we would treasure every single sound we heard. The teachings try to scare us into waking up to how little time there is and to the preciousness of human birth.”
~ Pema Chödrön
impermanence…
life is fleetingeach moment a gift
our only response is gratitude
manifest in love
pay attention
“One of the great insights we can get from mindfulness meditation practice is that each moment of experience arises and passes. Having a direct experience of this impermanence, from observing awareness, helps us let go of the attempt to calcify any single moment of time, to try to make something stable that is not.”
~ Loch Kelly
#impermanence #life #gift #gratitude #love
The Metta Garden 