the heart’s release by love

[haikuandmore]

[haikuandmore]

[commonplacebuddhism]

Ego needs constant support because it isn’t real. We don’t have to keep saying, ‘This is a house. This is a big house. This is an old house.’ It’s obvious. The house exists. But the ego doesn’t and therefore needs constant confirmation.

— Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path by Ayya Khema

[haikuandmore]

[haikuandmore]

[haikuandmore]

[commonplacebuddhism]

Buddhism is a clever way to enjoy life.

— Thich Nhat Hanh, quoted by Peter Levitt in his preface to The Other Shore

[haikuandmore]

[meanbuddhist]

[julesofnature]

Enlightenment isn’t an escape. It’s seeing, really seeing, what’s right in front of you. It’s staying. Even when it’s uncomfortable. Even when it’s brutally mundane.

There’s holiness in every breath.

In doing the small things with love.

In the life you already have.

excerpt from 'The Forgotten Corners', by Jeff Foster

[journalofanobody]

“No seed ever sees the flower.”

—

Zen saying

Via laeticia, melodysblog and ancientish

(via forgottencorners)

[haikuandmore]

[radical-revolution]

[thichnhathanhgems]

[commonplacebuddhism]

Zen Master Dogen said that a Zen master's life is one continuous mistake — that is, an opportunity to learn, one mistake after another.

— After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield

[haikuandmore]

[mountain-sage]

The nature of the Mind when understood,

No human speech can compass or disclose.

Enlightenment is naught to be attained,

And he that gains it does not say he knows.

– Huang Po