Via Lion´s Roar // Koans for Troubled Times

Koans for Troubled Times

How do we as Buddhists meet the challenges of our time? Joan Sutherland shares the history of koans, which were created to deal with a difficult period in Chinese history.

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 29, 2020 💌

I’ve learned to slow down and not move as fast through things as my mind would like me to, but to feel at home in the process. See, the process and product are so interwoven that getting there is half the fun. How you get there is as much of a part of the game as getting there is.

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Open to Your World

We may come to our meditation with the hope of reducing our stress or perfecting our technique or maybe even attaining enlightenment. But we very soon discover that the practice requires that we drop such ambition and sit still on the cushion, letting go of our internal dialogue, opening to our world—very simply, very directly.

—Michael Carroll, “Bringing Spiritual Confidence in the Workplace”

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