by Walt Disney

by Walt Disney

by Walt Disney

by Walt Disney

Be

love without ceasing

to pray with love
to labor with love
to see with love
to speak with love
to think with love
to endure with love
to understand with love
to forgive with love
to bless with love
to commit with love
to let go with love

life with love

&

death with love

Truth?

 Whatever purifies you , is the correct road,
I will try not to define it. 

~Rumi♥

Walk the Walk

"A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself."

George Bernard Shaw

Grace enters into any craft through a series of preceding clumsy handlings. Well, on second thoughts, it enters only if the lessons from the clumsy attempts are learnt in order to aid being more skillful.

The Sufi mystic Rumi, expresses this state of being quite well when he says "Soul, if you wish to uncover secrets, you must know nothing of shame and dignity."

..V

Peace, my friend; may your spirit find its rest in this peace.

let It all go on and on...

Simple Pleasures

A cup of tea had with biscuits can bring much delight. :)

this Life, this Love

Love arouses a more kind and gentle sense of being.

In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?
― Siddhārtha Gautama

Myst...

mys·tic - A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

- Google dictionary

 

These images are a letter to my dreams...

 

Remember your dreams ... 

remember your dreams ... remember your dreams ... 

remember ... dreams ...

 

I want to join the dance that has no steps,

I want to become the dance

 

What matters is not what is written on the page,

What matters is what is written in the heart. 

- Gregory Colbert

Silence

There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together. Silence separates us from ourselves, makes us sail the firmament of spirit, and brings us closer to Heaven; it makes us feel that bodies are no more than prisons and that this world is only a place of exile.

Source: Kahlil Gibran

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise His name! I'm fixed upon it
Name of God's redeeming love

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord, I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, O take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Here's my heart, O take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

- Jars of Clay

In Appreciation

To hear kind speech spoken to us directly makes the face happy and the mind joyful; to hear kind speech indirectly etches an impression in the heart.

- quoted by Koun; originally from Dogen's "Shobogenzo"

The people at the Austin Zen Center were so nice. By nice, I mean, skillful and forthright in human interaction. It's such an inspiring experience to have, especially because it's aligned with my deep-seated belief of the goodness in human nature which springs when well cultivated.

Unique Perspective

How would we see the future if we could stand on the shoulders of elephants?

  

Source: Gregory Colbert

Zen

Was at the Austin Zen Center, on a spiritual retreat, this past week. You know, somehow I can't find words enough to describe the experience exactly ... that's the way it is with these deep impressions I guess. The advice given to me my first day there was "Pay Attention!"; that's all.

On reflecting, it comes as a realization that the practice of these two simple words have birthed the greatest things which have etched their timeless mark on the human race. Remarkable!

Bare Bones Teaching

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To speak in broader terms, upon seeing an object in the world of desire, it would be good for you to learn to clarify what it is that you are looking at. To learn only to flee when you are frightened by something is the teaching and practice of those in the lesser course who rigidly follow what they have learned by rote. Were someone to attempt to abandon the populous east to live in seclusion in the sparsely-settled west, it would not mean that there are no objects in the world of desire to be found in the west. Even though such persons may think that they have succeeded in fleeing, to the extent that they have not yet clarified the matter of sensual desire, whether they keep their distance or come up close, there will be a world of desire. But this is not intended to be a full explanation, for the long threads of sensual desire will prove to extend even deeper.

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What had to be clarified, he made completely clear; what had to be done, he did fully; what needed to be explained, he fully explained.
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This realm completely permeates

the world of thoughts and things

and, by its very nature

is bound to boundless immaculacy.

Source: Excerpt from chapter 10, "On 'Respectful Bowing Will Secure for You the Very Marrow of the Way'", found in the book Shobogenzo, by Dogen.

Take care

Notice how this video brings together certain elements of nature...how it flows smoothly from one unique still into another. Love the space!

Rihanna sings, "I've loved and I've lost." 

My thoughts - Yes. If it is love, it's unnatural to think about letting go in order to gain something else; it is to yield and suffer the loss. This is how the being expands to include more.

Sunshine

If I had a tale that I could tell you

I'd tell a tale sure to make you smile... :)

Teacher?

The Teacher As Samurai Warrior

The closest analogy for the teacher in the vajrayana is the samurai warrior. Such a teacher is ferocious, but at the same time he has the qualities of a father, an elder, and a friend. He or she could be very passionate, warm, and sympathetic, but doesn’t buy any bullshit, if we could speak American at this point. Studying with such a person is dangerous and a very advanced thing to do. You might actually progress much faster on the path. But if you start with the expectation of going faster, you might actually go slower. You are well trained and disciplined at this point. The teacher’s approach now is to create successive teaching situations in your life. He or she demands unconditional trust and openness from you, without any logic. Maybe some little logic applies, but the invitation and the demand are simple and straightforward: “Would you like to come along with me and take part in this historic battle? Come along, here’s your sword.”

 

Source: Excerpted from “The Teacher” in the latest issue of the Shambhala Sun. Based on a seminar on the Sadhana of Mahamudra, 1975.

Live!

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be Notorious.

~Rumi

Listen to your heart

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"At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found." 

Emerson and all other great writers/thinkers of the past have hinted in some small way or another to derive our guidance to live by observing nature. Considering that so many of our wise thinkers shared in this idea, certainly there must be truth in it.