Our Quotes of the Day:
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love
You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.
Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.
If you do not do what you cannot do, that’s no problem. But if you do not what you can do, you are a tragedy.
Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones."
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.
The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.