Herzsutra

Einführung in die Zen Meditation

“Form ist Leerheit, Leerheit ist Form,
Form ist nichts anderes als Leerheit, 
Leerheit ist nichts anderes als Form.
Ebenso verhält es sich mit Empfindung, 
Wahrnehmung, Geistformation und Bewußtsein.”
Herzsutra

Deep

Jacob Needleman:

To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.

Four ways to wisdom

Angeles Arrien:

Show up or choose to be present,
pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
tell the truth without blame or judgment,
and be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.

Path of purification

.. a fruit of mindfulness meditation ..

 

Anushka Fernandopulle:

 

"In many ways, you can consider your mind being like the platform of a bus or train station where many trains of thought pull through, heading to various destinations: childhood memories, creative ideas, revenge fantasies, cravings for chocolate, plans for your next retreat. The untrained mind gets on every single train that pulls through the station... As we develop our practice we can learn to get on the thought trains that are helpful and skip the ones that are not. And just like in a train station, if nobody is boarding the trains that go somewhere, they will stop running as many of them, and eventually stop running them at all. This is known as the path of purification, and it is completely possible for a 21st century person to attain."

Child of Earth

I am a child of earth
My path is no highway
My rise needs no elevator

The sun is in my heart

High time

Now it´s time, high time
To step out of obsessive thinking
To come to my senses
And arrive at the ground at my feet.

Daily

An old Hasidic rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day had begun, for that is the time for certain holy prayers.
“Is it,” proposed one student, “when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?” “No,” answered the rabbi.
“Is it when you can clearly see the lines of your own palm?” “Is it when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell if it is a fig or a pear tree?” “No,” answered the rabbi each time.
“Then what is it?” the pupils demanded.
“It is when you can look on the face of any man or woman and see that they are your sister or brother. Until then it is still night.”

In the end

Poem by Tara Sophia Mohr

In the end
you won’t be known
for the things you did,
or what you built,
or what you said.

You won’t even be known
for the love given
or the hearts saved,

because in the end you won’t be known.

You won’t be asked, by a vast creator full of light:
What did you do to be known?

You will be asked: Did you know it,
this place, this journey?

What there is to know can’t be written.
Something between the crispness of air
and the glint in her eye
and the texture of the orange peel.

What you’ll want a thousand years from now is this:
a memory that beats like a heart–
a travel memory, of what it was to walk here,
alive and warm and textured within.

Sweet brightness, aliveness, take-me-now-ness that is life.

You are here to pay attention. That is enough.

True nature

Huang Po:

Your true nature is something never lost to you,
even in moments of delusion,
nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment.
It is the nature of your own mind,
the source of all things,
your original luminous brilliance.
You, the richest person in the world,
have been going around laboring and begging,
when all the while the treasure you seek is within you.
It is who you are.

Waking

Waking, by Hafiz


In the morning
When I began to wake,
It happened again -That feeling
That You, Beloved,
Had stood over me all night
...Keeping watch,
That feeling
That as soon as I began to stir
You put Your lips on my forehead
And lit a Holy Lamp
Inside my Heart.

Moment

tigers above

tigers below

strawberries in my mouth

present moment

wonderful

Metta

May all beings everywhere, with whom we are inseparably interconnected and who want and need the same as we do,
May all be liberated, healed, fulfilled and free

Honoring

"Your innate goodness needs tending. When we build and maintain a spiritual practice, we are acknowledging that we take our spiritual lives seriously. Every time we meditate, pray or engage in spiritual reading or practice, we are honoring our innate Buddha-nature--honoring the light within, honoring our best selves and our highest potential. We are attuning ourselves with the sacred."

Lama Surya Das

Listening

Non-judgmental listening is a healing present to both, the one who tells and the one who listens.

Do we

"What we know is a drop, what we don´t know is an ocean."  

Isaac Newton

Very moment

It is the world around us and the people here living in this very moment.

Inoma

Pama Mapa

Neulengbach

Lion´s roar

"Can you imagine opening without resistance to the aliveness, change and loss that is inherent in this existence? 

Can you imagine opening in this very moment to the pleasantness and pain, the changing flow of life? 

It is that openness that awakens the lion’s roar. 

It is that openness that allows us to live with a heart that is ready for anything."

Tara  Brach

from: http://blog.tarabrach.com/

Being

Breathing space
Smiling face
Just from time to time

Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-Zinn:

"The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded. This includes a lack of awareness and understanding of our own mind and how it influences our perceptions and our actions. It severely limits our perspective on what it means to be a person and how we are connected to each other and the world around us. Religion has traditionally been the domain of such fundamental inquiries within a spiritual framework, but mindfulness has little to do with religion, except in the most fundamental meaning of the word, as an attempt to appreciate the deep mystery of being alive and to acknowledge being vitally connected to all that exists."

from: Wherever You Go, There You Are