Zen Dabblings

Hi! I'm John. I'm 19 years old and I'm a student of Eastern Philosophy. Enjoy!

[purplebuddhaproject]

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Timothy Leary (via purplebuddhaproject)

[oofpoetry]

I miss you like a dart hits the iris of a bullseye, or a train ticket screams 4:30 at 4:47, I wanted to tell you that it’s my birthday on Thursday and I would have wanted you to give me the gift of your guts on the floor, one last time, to see if you still had it in you. I hope our ghosts aren’t eating you alive. If I’m to speak for myself, I’ll tell you that the universe is twice as big as we think it is and you’re the only one that made that idea less devastating.

Lucas Regazzi, from “Small” (via oofpoetry)

[zendabblings]

I'm not afraid. I don't regret what happened. I long for a tomorrow that will never arrive. The chains are without a key.

[oceanandwave-deactivated2018032]

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.”

Ramesh S. Balsekar (via oceanandwave)

[purplebuddhaproject]

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Gautama Buddha (via purplebuddhaproject)

[aseaofquotes]

[aseaofquotes]

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

[purplebuddhaproject]

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Hermann Hesse  (via purplebuddhaproject)

[wreckedstar]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri J.M. Nouwen (via notaquiff)

[panatmansam]

A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

The Dalai Lama (via panatmansam)

[iam-youis]

The grandest possible truth is that you are, in every Now moment, no matter how it seems, in every Now, the Perfect and Eternal Expression and Extension of the Mind of the Source. It can be no other way. Each and every one of you is a Perfect Extension of Source. You are gods and goddesses smelling the rose of this existence. You, indeed, have created it all, this life, all life, every lifetime, every situation. You have created it all, co-created it indeed, and all of your creations are valid.

P’taah (via iam-youis)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

More thought provoking quotes like the above on the Purple Buddha Project Instagram @purplebuddhaproject

https://instagram.com/purplebuddhaproject/

[guamguyjer]

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality

Alan Watts

[Elephant Journal: My 10 Favorite Quotes from Alan Watts]

(via guamguyjer)

[observando]

It’s very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Albert Hofmann (via observando)

[nakedverite-deactivated20200209]

There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself.

Hermann Hesse  (via yeshecholwa)

[aseaofquotes]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Nice Quiet Place”

[russell-tomlin]

Where Souls Go To Rest on Flickr.

There are times I would be a poet, inspired by the Chinese masters of landscape and solitude and regret. I am taken a bit thinking that when I walk deep and up into these hills, finally sitting alone on a bit of tarp, sipping from a steel hip flask of Jameson’s and black coffee in my thermos, smoking and brooding, almost to regret, perhaps I am not so different thirteen centuries later, more content with solitude than perhaps I should be.