If you use your mind to try and understand reality, you will understand neither your mind nor reality. If you try and understand reality without using your mind, you will understand both your mind and reality.
Bodhidharma
Tag: Enlightenment
The way is not difficult for those without…
The way is not difficult, for those without preferences.
Seng-T’san
Enlightenment is constant awareness of this world as…
Enlightenment is constant awareness of this world as inherently divine, of life as a loving partnership with God and every moment as an opportunity to offer and receive love.
Radhanath Swami
“We gain enlightenment like the moon reflecting in…
“We gain enlightenment like the moon reflecting in the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the whole sky are reflected in a drop of dew in the grass.”
Dōgen Zenji