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June 2013

Jun 14, 2013113 notes
#Hiroshi Yamazaki
“When you go abroad, don’t turn around at the frontier.” —Pythagoras
Jun 14, 201341 notes
#Pythagoras #Pilgrimage #Wisdom Traditions
Jun 13, 201381 notes
#Brother David Steindl-Rast #Wisdom Traditions #Death

Sit for a short time; then take a break, a very short break of about thirty seconds or a minute. But be mindful of whatever you do, and do not lose your presence and its natural ease. Then alert yourself and sit again. If you do many short sessions like this, your breaks will often make your meditation more real and more inspiring; they will take the clumsy, irksome rigidity, solemnity, and unnaturalness out of your practice and bring you more and more focus and ease.

Gradually, through this interplay of breaks and sitting, the barrier between meditation and everyday life will crumble, the contrast between them will dissolve, and you will find yourself increasingly in your natural pure presence, without distraction.

Then, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.”

–Sogyal Rinpoche. Rigpa: Glimpse of the Day

Jun 13, 201339 notes
#Sogyal Rinpoche #Tibetan Buddhism #Wisdom Traditions
Jun 13, 201331 notes
#Stephen A. Grant #Gurdjieff #Wisdom Traditions
“A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it - that alone can be like waking up from a dream.” —David Steindl-Rast courtesy of my dear friend, Whiskey River.
Jun 13, 2013126 notes
#David Steindl-Rast #Wisdom Traditions
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Jun 13, 201325 notes
#Matisyahu #Video #Audio
The Gypsy Camp Rod McKuen & Anita Kerr

Rod McKuen and Anita Kerr and San Sebastian Strings | “The Gypsy Camp” from the album, The Sea.

Jun 11, 201314 notes
#Rod McKuen #Anita Kerr #San Sebastian Strings #Audio
Jun 11, 2013116 notes
#Yu Xuanji #Poetry #Jane Hirschfield #Weiferd Watts
Jun 11, 20131,244 notes
#Rakesh JV #Maha Shivaratri Festival
Jun 09, 2013835 notes
#Robert Mapplethorpe
Sanya Sugagaki Katsuya Yokoyama

Katsuya Yokoyama | “Sanya Sugagaki” from Art of the Shakuhachi, 1999

Jun 09, 201325 notes
#Katsuya Yokoyama
Jun 09, 201397 notes
#Adolph de Meyer
Jun 09, 2013264 notes
#Grace M. Ballentine
Jun 09, 2013153 notes
“Only now I know
that power–greater than storms–
a heart rending-awe
silencing all the pines
at nightfall on the mountain.”
—Emperor Fushima (1265-1317) translated by Sam Hamill: The Poetry of Zen, (Shambhala Books, Boston, 2004)
Jun 09, 201370 notes
#Emperor Fushima #Poetry
“Settling, white dew
does not discriminate,
each drop its home.”
—Nishiyama Sōin (1604-1682) translated by Sam Hamill: The Poetry of Zen, (Shambhala Books, Boston, 2004)
Jun 09, 201335 notes
#Poetry #Nishiyama Sōin
Jun 08, 2013543 notes
#Walter Bird
“Where you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.” —Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via liquidnight)
Jun 08, 2013234 notes
#Cormac McCarthy
Jun 07, 2013186 notes
#Nisargadatta Maharaj #Fan Ho
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