Category: Wisdom Traditions

Today’s One-Liner (#350)

Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature. –Sri Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook, 34

Present Moment Only Moment

No matter where we are, no matter what we face, we have to take care of this moment. That’s all. –Dainin Katagiri, You Have To Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight, 9 The title comes from…

A Treasure from the West

 One day, [Soen Nakagawa] and his classmates at Hiroshima Junior High School pooled their pocket money to purchase a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which had just been made available in Japan.  Overwhelmed by the…

Burning

To take care of your life is to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.–Dainin Katagiri, The Light That Shines through Infinity But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies,…

It’s Simple… and Difficult

The absence of engagement, the hours spent in one or another form of channel-surfing, is actually the chief cause of our anxiety and mental exhaustion, the sleep of the spirit the chief cause of our…

Seize the Instant Already!

A man engaged in Buddhist practice will tell himself at night that there is always the morning, or in the morning will anticipate the night, always intending to make more effort later. And if such…

Bodhisattva Vows

Although sentient beings are limitless, we vow to save them.Although our evil desires are limitless, we vow to be rid of them. Although the teaching is limitless, we vow to learn it all.Although Buddhism is unattainable,…

Today’s One-Liner (#348)

In Aikido, a sincere practitioner continually strives to forge the body, discipline the mind, and polish the spirit. –John Stevens, The Shambhala Guide to Aikido, 27

Way beyond Books

[Sri Anandamayi Ma] never sees fit to read books and thus… testifies to the fact that wisdom is not dependent on book learning—a truth too shocking to be accepted by most academicians. –Alexander Lipski, in…