Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness.
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mi… - Philip Kapleau
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mi…
- Philip Kapleau
Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound - Philip Kapleau
Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound
You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and not… - Philip Kapleau
You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and not…
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… - Philip Kapleau
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that…
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.' - Philip Kapleau
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good. - Philip Kapleau
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and… - Philip Kapleau
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and…
Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion … - Philip Kapleau
Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion …
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the sam… - Philip Kapleau
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the sam…
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