Beautiful :)

"I live peacefully in a grass hut,
Listening to the birds for music.
Clouds are my best neighbors.
Below, a pure spring where I refresh body and mind;
Above, towering pines and oaks that provide shade and brushwood.
Free, so free, day after day—
I never want to leave!"

Ryōkan

Nice insight.
To not project our desired images of another person onto the real human who is there.
It's hard not to do that.

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who coaches
him now

Lovely.

Yes, a way of being. Words are abstractions (mind-images) conditioned by culture, individuality and biology. The view of the world gets filtered and distorted. To understand our personal image-production, let the little mind rest for a while, and Reality might shine clearer as it is. :)

That's it.

Dreamy :)

Lovely.

True and well said.😀

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki - "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind"

In learning - every day something is added.
In Tao - every day something is dropped.

Why does our little self - our ego - analyse itself?
To be wiser?
Is it the ego that's wise?

not
dark
yet
firefly

J. S. O'Connor

The philosopher/writer Albert Camus seems to be right when he says:

"To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one’s own world, which comes to the same thing)."

A. Camus – "The Myth of Sisyphus"

"Such awareness is a lively attention to one’s direct experience,
to the world as immediately sensed,
so as not to be misled by names and labels."

Alan Watts - "The Way of Zen" 😃

Our little mind can’t examine our little mind.

Our mind uses thoughts and feelings to create an ego.

The ego builds a fantasy-reality to feel safe and satisfied.

Let's smile with compassion at our little mind and ego.

To love is spontaneously being without the ego's and thought's calculations.

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No, but a 2003-book. Probably the best Scandinavian novel the last 25 years:
Per Petterson - "Out Stealing Horses"

"This world–

to what may I liken it?

To autumn fields

lit dimly in the dusk

by lightning flashes.”

Minamoto-no-Shitago (911-83)
(Yoel Hoffmann - "Japanese Death Poems")
#zen #buddhism

I like Woolf.
But if we look at life, it's Being.
Every moment we live, we ARE.
"Becoming" points to something which doesn't exist.
"Becoming" is our thought/idea of some non-existent time (future). And a thought is neither time nor life.

I talked to my aunt and cousin, and they were so happy and thankful!!
😀

Love cannot be enforced or mastered,
so it seems that love and freedom
are words for essentially the same thing.

"You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point
where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself."

Shunryu Suzuki - "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

"A monk sips morning tea,
it's quiet,
the chrysanthemum's flowering."

Basho

"The barking of a dog
is a very good teacher,
better than Zen masters."

Seung Sahn - "Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake"