“Just to be alive is enough.”
~ Suzuki Roshi
…easy to forget. peace-giving, perspective balancing, grateful to remember…
#gratitude #abide #zen #gift #life #SuzukiRoshi
quotes
Arundhati Roy quote…
#Nonviolence365
@BerniceKing: The best path to save the soul of America and transform our culture is through #Nonviolence365 . It’s more than a tactic, it’s a lifestyle.
#this #BeTheChange #peace #wisdom #love #compassion #transformation #NoDayButToday
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara quote…
Oh this life, this life!
“Buddha told a parable in a sutra:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another Tiger was waiting to eat him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the fine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!”
~ a Zen parable as retold in the book, “Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings” compiled by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki
abundance…
“I see a fearless generosity in the flowers and trees, in the way birds sing out at dawn, in the steady drumming of the rain. As I grew older and found I had things to protect, I forgot. I completely forgot that I had always had enough in the first place. Now I am trying to learn this once again—total abundance, nothing begrudged.”
~ Sallie Tisdale
the experience of our life as it is…
“…disasters do happen and our pictures of how our life should be are blown away. Then we have a choice: do we face the disaster directly and make it our practice or do we run once again, learning nothing and compounding our difficulties? If we want a life that’s peaceful and productive, what do we need? We need the ability (which we learn slowly and unwillingly) to be the experience of our life as it is.”
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Thich Nhat Hanh mantra…
Breathing in,
I see myself as a flower.
Breathing out, I feel fresh.
Breathing in,
I see myself as a mountain.
Breathing out, I feel solid.
Breathing in, I see myself as space.
Breathing out, I feel free.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Planetary, the film…
in honor of Earth Day and in celebration of this beautiful gift that is this planet I watched (and subsequently purchased) this exquisite movie and wholeheartedly recommend that watch it. you can rent rather than purchase 🙂
namaste ~j
#PlanetaryTheMovie #Planetary #Earth #Interdependence #WeAreOne #PlanetaryCollective
one on one…
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Why do I consider it so crucial to balance the outer aspects of nonviolence and compassion with the inner support of contemplative practice? Because in the end, all politics are local, and we cannot love life and humanity if we do not love each other, one on one. ~ Lama Surya Das |
The Metta Garden 