Relatividad Positiva

How many things do you say just to make an impression on others?

What are you really achieving when you try to make an impression?

If you didn’t do things for merit or advancement, or if you didn’t act with motives at all,

what would life be like? At work? In bed? Alone in a room.

Even alone in a room you can be consumed with wanting other people to see you in a good light.

(John Tarrant)

Momento nchi del día: mi visita al homeópata y un e-mail lleno de sueños. ¿Y el tuyo?

… that life is paradise,
for it suffices only to wish to understand it,
and at once paradise
will appear in front of us in its beauty.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky).

“If you want to understand Zen easily, just be mindless, wherever you are, twenty-four hours a day, until you spontaneously merge with the Way. This is what an ancient worthy called “The mind not touching things, the step placed anywhere” (Ying-an)

“The world is round

and the place which

may seem like

the end may also

be the beginning“

(George Baker)

Estando en NM, decidí autoregalarme un calendario con frases Zen. Aunque las frases están inglés, intentaré compartirlas con vosotras/os para que todas/os podamos reflexionar al respecto.

” All at once the roshi, the room, every single thing disappeared in a dazzling stream of illumination and I felt myself bathed in a delicious, unspeakable delight . . . For a fleeting eternity I was alone- I alone was…”

(A student describing Kensho)