For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
Shunryu SuzukiRead
When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
Interpretation
Focusing on the present moment can lead to a timeless experience.
This quote by Shunryu Suzuki emphasizes the importance of living fully in the present. When we engage with each moment without attachment to outcomes or the passage of time, we can experience life more vividly and lose the anxiety that often accompanies expectations about the future.
In practice
In a mindfulness workshop, someone may say, 'As Shunryu Suzuki wisely noted, when you live completely in each moment, you have no idea of time.'
For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.
We believe what we see.β...What do you do when youβre in the dark?
The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.
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