Mindfulbalance

When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear it as clothing or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped.

Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you,

nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-Seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

Written before smartphones, email and the internet.

No inner room to inhabit our own hearts. Greater anxiety gets transferred into endless activity.

We live in a time of no room, which is the time of the end.

The time when everyone is obsessed with lack of time, lack of space, with saving time, conquering space, projecting into time and space the anguish produced within them by the technological furies of size, volume, quantity, speed, number, price, power, and acceleration

Thomas Merton, The Time of the End Is the Time of No Room, August 1965

If we are willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. 

This is the first step on the path.

Pema Chodron

We can get so caught up in the “drama” of our life and our work that we fail to be present for what is in front of us. How many autumns do we truly experience?

世事一场大梦，人生几度秋凉

The affairs of the world are but a great dream;

how many times do we feel the coolness of autumn?

Su Shi, 1037 -1101, Chinese Song-dynasty poet