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🌟 1. The Art of Everyday Maintenance

In Zen, enlightenment is not a final destination, but a continuous daily practice.

Mending socks is an ordinary, repetitive household chore.

Zen views mental care the same way—not as a dramatic crisis, but as regular upkeep.

You do not buy a new mind; you care for the one you have with patience.

2. Acceptance Without JudgmentWhen you mend a sock, you do not get angry at the hole or wonder why it tore.

You simply see the gap and pull the thread to close it.

Zen teaches you to look at your mental wounds with the same neutral objectivity.

Acknowledging pain or anxiety without judging yourself is the first step to healing.

3. The Power of "Moving On"

The final part of the quote emphasizes action and presence.

You mend the sock specifically so you can wear it to walk again.

Similarly, you repair your mind not to dwell on the past, but to return to the current moment.

True healing allows you to step forward into life without being held back by old tears.

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“Even a strong wind is empty by nature.

Even a great wave is just ocean itself.

Even thick southern clouds are insubstantial as sky.

Even the dense mind is naturally birthless.”

—Milarepa in Drinking the Mountain Stream

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The day my mother died I wrote in my journal, "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother. But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam, I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage. I dreamed of my mother. I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk. She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down. It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died. When I woke up it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly that I had never lost my mother. The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear. I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea. It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me.

I opened the door and went outside. The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight. It was a hill covered with tea plants, and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up. Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tender, very sweet... wonderful! Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine but a living continuation of my mother and my father and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Of all my ancestors. Those feet that I saw as "my" feet were actually "our" feet. Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil.

From that moment on, the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed. All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand, feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet to remember that my mother is always with me, available at any time.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, in "No Death, No Fear".

Photo: Amy Doerring

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[dimensional-tourist]

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[amokedas]

“Now is the meaning of eternal life. Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” He didn’t say “I was”. He said, “I am.” And to come to this, to know that you are and there is no time except the present, is to suddenly attain a sense of reality.”

— Alan Watts

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“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God”

— A Course in Miracles

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“Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will all be one a hundred years hence.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[lovemetaprograms]

Some day you will be blessed with a warm sunlight that permeates your soul, and heals your heartache. Someday your mother will welcome you home, and you will remember why you came here, and you will know yourself as whole.

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"When we surrender the need to figure it all out, and cultivate the ability to let it all in, then our earth walk becomes a sacred dance of healing service on the planet. More than the world needs saving, it needs loving."

— Oscar Miro-Quesada

Art@ Willow Arleneal

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In a million scattered moments I realize, my old life is gone, my old self is dead. Maybe it was never there to begin with?

Nothing remains, and yet, everything stays in eternity, just a breath away.

[lovemetaprograms]

Existence is freefall,

Matter giving out from under itself

Total fulfillment

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Create what you will, it will be your world