ZIJI PGH

[stardust-seedling]

You don’t give up, you keep going straight, because through your practice you will inevitably confront yourself. This is how you refine your life; and at some point, by practicing in this way, you may realise that you’ve gone beyond even the most fearful place in your mind: fear of a nonexistent self.

Jakusho Kwong Roshi (via stardust-seedling)

[nevver]

There’s another side to the story

[infinite-paradox]

Love in action. To who much is given, much is expected. Sharing is caring.

[opiraticentranced]

Imagine that everyone you see and encounter is enlightened —everyone except YOU. And all those people are buddhas, there to teach you something you need to know.

Jack Kornfield (via opiraticentranced)

[zijipgh]

It is a cultural habit, particularly in the Western world, to look for a change of mood so that every event in your life is a surprise. In England, even though you know that you are going to have four o’clock tea, when the maid actually comes with the tea, everybody says, “Ah, there comes the maid with the tea! Let’s have tea! Please help yourselves to the cake!” When dinner comes, “It’s dinnertime!” It is as if the unfinished or badly handled part of your late-afternoon life has been cheered up by having dinner, so life is worth living once more. Then it’s bedtime. “You should get some sleep! You could have cocoa or hot milk, if you like! Have pleasant dreams!” And in the morning, when you wake up, they say, “Did you have a good night? Here is breakfast! Have some fruit juice!” There is always another shift of gear, a constant attempt to please, the pathetic gesture of trying to cheer oneself up each moment. It is like climbing a staircase: when you come down the staircase, you have to climb back up, then you come down again and climb back up and come back down. In this approach, you never face life. Not only is it pathetic, it drives people mad. As far as we are concerned, life is a big blanket. It covers everything, and although there may be occasional bumps, it is still a blanket. Awareness is a big blanket, too. It is good and healthy all the way, so we do not have to scale down and then cheer ourselves up, back and forth. In our approach, drinking a cup of tea in the late afternoon is not a lifesaver, it’s just drinking a cup of tea in the afternoon. Having dinner is a slightly bigger deal, I must admit, but it is still just eating dinner, not a particularly extraordinary event. We have lost the meaning of celebration and ceremony by holding those little ceremonies, which are not real ceremonies, but simply attempts to cheer ourselves up.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma vol 1

[abiding-in-peace]

Leunig gives a blessing for us in southern Australia - on this morning - the start of daylight saving.

[vajrasun]

Internal Avalokiteśvara

Kyoto National Museum

[lucifelle-deactivated20241017]

Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

Ueshiba Morihei (via lucifelle)

[larmoyante]

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up.

Shane Koyczan (via breathemystardust)

[zijipgh]

Any meditation practice we might be doing, such as shamatha-vipashyana practice, should transcend even the highest concept of spirituality. Both the ordinary lower-level world and the so-called “spiritual,” or higher-level, world, are very materialistic—and meditation practice should be able to go beyond that. In meditation we are not trying to overcome or to defeat anything, and we are not trying to gain any level of high spiritual achievement for the sake of pleasure. Since the practice of meditation is not at all geared to pleasure, its achievement should also be beyond pleasure—and since it transcends pleasure, it also transcends pain. But transcending pain and developing peace are by-products of meditation practice rather than an immediate aim.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma Volume 1 (Hinayana)

[opiraticentranced]

Abandon all hope of fruition.

Lojong mind training slogan (via opiraticentranced)

[zijipgh]

[zijipgh]

Louis CK on the Sad Heart of Joy

[y-x-u-blog]

We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an antipoverty attitude, a war on want.

Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (via y-x-u)

[opiraticentranced]

In this short time that we have as human beings, wouldn’t it be nice to sometimes really feel this life and appreciate existence?

Adam Lobel (via opiraticentranced)

[opiraticentranced]

There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: “Knowledge must be burned, hammered and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as an ornament.” So when you receive spiritual instruction from the hands of another, you do not take it uncritically, but you burn it, you hammer it, you beat it, until the bright dignified color of gold appears. Then you craft it into an ornament, whatever design you like, and you put it on. Therefore, dharma is applicable to every age, to every person; it has a living quality. It is not enough to imitate your master or guru; you are not trying to become a replica of your teacher. The teachings are an individual personal experience, right down to the present holder of the doctrine.

from Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa (via opiraticentranced)

[opiraticentranced]

Happy Buddha by Alexis Covato

[zijipgh]

When we talk about the tantric world, we are talking about this visual, auditory, sensory world, which has not been explored or looked at properly. Nobody has bothered to actually experience it. People just take it for granted. We may have been interested in our world when we were little children, but then we were taught how to handle it by our parents. Our parents already had developed a system to deal with the world and to shield themselves from it at the same time. As we accepted that system, we lost contact with the world. We lost the freshness and curiosity of our infancy a long time ago. And now, although the world is full of all kinds of things, we find that in communicating with the world we are somewhat numb. There is numbness in our sight, numbness in our hearing, numbness in all our senses. It is as though we had been drugged. The reality of the world- the brilliance of red, the brightness of turquoise, the majesty of yellow, and the fantastic quality of green- has not been seen properly. We have been indoctrinated, or we have indoctrinated ourselves. The point of tantra is to reintroduce the world to us.

Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche