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The Art of Wu Wei

Personal Perspective: What if the moment you give up control is the moment everything starts to work?

Trying Not to Try: Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei

"Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and bloodless. Success does not always come from thinking more rigorously or striving harder."

What Am I? Bringing Zen Practice Into Everyday Life

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Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

"Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies."

You Understand the World—But Do You Understand Yourself?

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Zen Is Keeping Don't Know Mind

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Beyond Thinking: Returning to Your Original Nature

Morning Meditation — Deep existence is beyond forms.

'Deep existence is beyond forms, wisdom illuminates the inside of the circle. Inside the circle the self vanishes, neither existent nor nonexistent.' Hongzhi Zhengjue

The True Job of Enlightenment | Beyond Silence and Solitude

How We Sabotage Our Growth

We can stop fighting with ourselves through wu wei 無為, non-action.

How To Enter Buddhahood

A monk asked a master, "I just became a monk and would like to know how to enter Buddhahood." The master said, "Do you hear the waterfall?""Yes I do" replied the monk. The Master s...

You Are Already A Towering Oak

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The Moon and Sixpence-Worth of Wisdom

Be yourself, don’t change for other peopleContinue reading on The RvR В»

The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree

"It was the great and eternal made visible: a confluence of opposites, their fusing together in the fire of reality. It meant nothing... or, rather, it meant everything... and it w...

Beyond the Glass Tunnel

Buddhist teachings find unexpected resonance in the work of British philosopher Derek Parfit. The post Beyond the Glass Tunnel appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

We Are Ripples Must Make The Best Of Our Short Lives – Hinduism Teaching

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: Embracing the Ephemeral Self In Hindu thought, the universe is likened to an infinite ocean of consciousness, and each individual life is a fleeting ri...

Unshaken Self

Be who you are in the shifting light,...

Holding On

I ride the waves of life...

Morning meditation — Do not talk about the ‘Void’ all day.

‘Do not talk about the 'Void' all day without practicing it in the mind. One who does this may be likened to a self-styled king who is really a commoner. Prajna can never be attain...

How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Overcome Creative Block: Artist SoLewitt’s Magnificent Letter of Advice

"You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool."

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

"I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood."

Morning meditation — The Perfect Way.

‘The Perfect Way is difficult only for those who pick and choose.’ Seng-ts’an

Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice

"If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God... he does not come to us from books, he lives within us... This God is in you too. He i...

Morning meditation — Prajna comes from the Essence of Mind and not from an exterior source.

‘Learned Audience, all Prajna comes from the Essence of Mind and not from an exterior source. Have no mistaken notion about that. This is called 'Self-use of the True Nature'. Once...