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thecalminside

To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.

-Stephen Levine

#stephen levine #peace #stillness #calm #inner peace #love #life #wisdom #happiness

maureen2musings

Clear blue

laurilohi

#forest #birch trees #nature #forest therapy

paularenom

Balanced stone sculpture by Kubota Takeharu.

#land art #kubota takeharu #nature

ymutate

HARUNA TAKAHAMA (Japanese, born 1988)

"Playing Things" (2023)

#art #cats #cat

cristalplanetheart

#beach #sea #nature #peace

cristalplanetheart

#beach #sea #nature #coping #peaceful #zen #ocean

internationalemeteorologie

Hiroshi Yoshida

El Capitan (North American series). 1925

#hiroshi yoshida #printmaking art #ukiyo-e #yosemite #nature

chrysocomae

#heart sutra #buddhism #sunyata #prajnaparamita

eelhound

"If we take hold of something that has a particular form, saying, 'Yes, this is it! This is the truth!' we have then made Truth merely an idea. Soon we begin to discuss it and weigh it. But no matter how long we discuss such things, we will never find solutions to any of our questions. In time we will discover our idea doesn't always work. It's just relative.

Our problem is that we believe our relative truths are Absolute. This is why we are always fighting each other. We always try to get everything into our hands. We ignore the fact that whatever we can get into our hands is only what we have been able to measure by our yardstick. You can't possess Absolute as a form; you can't hold it in your hand. It is before any form appears. When we try to speak of it, naturally, negative terms appear.

People sometimes misunderstand Buddhism because it often uses expressions like no eyes, no ears, no nose, no heart, no mind, no self, no consciousness, and so forth. Sometimes they think Buddhism is nihilistic. But Buddhism is not nihilistic. It is not about the destruction of existence. It is about seeing the world before we measure it. There is nothing to pin down because the reality we are living is constantly changing. Yet, while there's nothing to pin down, nothing to hold in our hand, still we have the sense of 'I am here.' And then we take hold of that idea. This is why everyone is confused."

- Dainin Katagiri, from You Have Something to Say: Manifesting Zen Insight, 1999.

#dainin katagiri #quotations #sunyata #direct experience #buddhism