Tao of Damien

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[4321the]

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

[taoofdamien]

Buddha is merely a conception in your mind.

Ryokan

[taoofdamien]

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Sir Francis Bacon

[taoofdamien]

Each drifting snowflake falls nowhere but here and now.

Muso Soseki

[taoofdamien]

In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your only fulfillment, and in your tremendous helplessness suddenly the whole existence starts helping you.

Osho

[taoofdamien]

It is mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe.

Thomas Carlyle

[taoofdamien]

If it's winter, one must have a mind of winter — indeed, one must be winter — to be here. That is, not thinking of spring, not longing for summer, for something that doesn't exist now, here. This mind isn't reaching for some other place. And if it's summer, one must have a mind of summer. There is no other place. We're forever here.

Steve Hagen

[taoofdamien]

Those who seek the Way must enter it with the suddenness of a knife-thrust.

Huang-po

[taoofdamien]

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

St. Anthony

[taoofdamien]

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chogyam Trungpa

[taoofdamien]

There are those who, upon seeing an old monk open his mouth to speak, put his special words in their own mouths to chew on. They are like flies fighting to gobble dung.

Yun-men

[taoofdamien]

If the only prayer you say in your life is 'Thank you,' that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

[taoofdamien]

The secret is within yourself.

Hui-neng

[taoofdamien]

Monk: "Who preaches the wisdom of the Buddha?" Nan-yang: "Walls and stones." Monk: "How can they teach anything? They are insentient." Nan-yang: "They are always eloquently teaching the truth." Monk: "I can't hear it." Nan-yang: "But that doesn't mean everyone can't." Monk: "Who hears it then?" Nan-yang: "All the sages do."

[taoofdamien]

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

John Logue

[zenwords]

When you are suffering, work with that suffering. Suffering doesn’t mean that the meditation practice is not working. It means that it is. No matter how long you practice suffering still hurts. When you practice empathy, other people’s suffering also hurts. Mindfulness gives you skills for sticking with the painful parts of life. It doesn’t eliminate them.

Zenmister

[books-n-quotes]

Everything in life is just for a while.

Philip K. Dick, “A Scanner Darkly"