Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts
March 25, 2012
I came late to the dharma,
But each day, deepen my retreat.
Waiting for mountain monks,
I sweep my simple hut.
Then down from the cloudy peaks
You come through knee-deep weeds.
We kneel on tatami, munching pine nuts.
We burn incense and study the way.
Light the lamp at twilight;
A simple chime begins the night.
In every solitude, deep joy:
This life abides.
How can you think of returning?
A lifetime is empty like the Void.
~ Wang Wei
But each day, deepen my retreat.
Waiting for mountain monks,
I sweep my simple hut.
Then down from the cloudy peaks
You come through knee-deep weeds.
We kneel on tatami, munching pine nuts.
We burn incense and study the way.
Light the lamp at twilight;
A simple chime begins the night.
In every solitude, deep joy:
This life abides.
How can you think of returning?
A lifetime is empty like the Void.
~ Wang Wei
October 07, 2011
You do not set the standard. You have not walked in my footsteps, danced in my shoes, or lived in my world. Do not judge me, point your fingers at me, or become experts on my life. Instead celebrate with me in times of joy and cry with me in times of pain. Only then will we begin to understand each other. ~ Kate Baker
June 23, 2011
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. ~ Kahil Gibran
April 17, 2011
The Buddha didn't describe his awakening as an awakening to some absolute truth or absolute reality, perhaps comparable to God as we would find in other religious traditions. Instead, what he woke up to is the unfolding of the phenomenal world itself. This I think is what is so radical in the Buddha’s understanding of spiritual experience. It doesn’t have to do with gaining some privileged access to a higher truth that somehow transcends the messiness of everyday life. Rather, his awakening was an awakening to the flux and the flow, the pain, the beauty, the tragedy, and the joy of life itself. ~ Stephen Batchelor (from "Awakening to Life, Awakening to Death")
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