[mystictrek]

Good friends, if you would cultivate imperturbability, just whenever you see people, do not see their right or wrong, good or bad, faults or troubles; then your own nature is immovable. Good friends, even though the bodies of deluded people be immobile, yet when they open their mouths to speak of the right and wrong, strengths and weaknesses, good and bad of other people, they turn away from the path. If you cling to mind or cling to purity, this veils the truth.
What is called sitting meditation? In this way there is no obstruction, no impediment. When outwardly, in the midst of all pleasant or unpleasant realms, thoughts do not arise in the mind, this is called “sitting.” Inwardly to see that one’s own nature does not move is called “meditation.”
- Hui-neng (638-713) + found at dailyzen.com

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love, john + www.abundancetrek.com & www.abundancetrek.com/blog + “You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." -- Franz Kafka

[Cynthia]

"Cultivate imperturbability" - there's a goal. Great quote Mystic - thanks!

I got one from Duke Ellington today: I just took the energy it takes to pout and wrote the blues.

Gotta love it!

[McKenna]

Cynthia, on Jan 18 2008, 06:20 AM, said:

"Cultivate imperturbability" - there's a goal. Great quote Mystic - thanks!

I got one from Duke Ellington today: I just took the energy it takes to pout and wrote the blues.

Gotta love it!

Love the Duke Ellington quote