Love says, "I am everything". Wisdom says, "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!
It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home.
I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my
trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on
my list home made gifts.
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness
to ourselves and others.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see.
The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we
breathe can be a source of joy.
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness
that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years
for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in
the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh
BUDDHA is a wonderfully imaginative story of a man and his iconic journey to personal spiritual growth.
No aspiration. No seeking. Just sit and let go of all but that of sitting. Entirely alert, from moment to moment, of sitting. Meditation as a journey to not but anyplace other than where one is. The space that separates from here to there is zero. We shall not cease from exploration |
posted by I Am This at 2:50 PM
Comments on "Sitting"
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CE said ... (3:12 AM) :
post a commentWhen siting, just sit. when thinking, just think. But of course you can do both at the same time. Just don't force anything.
But why sit when one can dance, sing or play an instrument. When practicing, just practice. But don't make a practice out of it. Be virtous without trying to be. Be self-aware without being self-conscious. Be self-absorbed if one can't help it but don't make a big fuss over it.
Being oneself. Being. One can't be otherwise. Unless one wants to be something that one is not.