The disease is simple and the cure is equally simple. It’s just your mind that makes you insecure and unhappy. Stop abusing your mind and everything will be well with you. Give up all worries about the past and the future and live fully in the present.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Tag: Present
Light to-morrow with to-day!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Romance of the Swan’s Nest
Mind and the present
The mind always takes us to the past or the future. In the present, the mind cannot exist. In the present, there is no need, no use of the mind. One is only aware. By focusing the mind long enough on the present, the mind automatically dissolves.
112 Meditations, Ranjit Chaudhri
Spiritual knowledge is fresh
In the Buddhist lineage, knowledge is not handed down like an antique. One teacher experiences the truth of the teachings and hands it down as an inspiration to his students. That inspiration wakens the student who passes it on further. The teachings are seen as always up to date, they are not thought of as “ancient wisdom”.
It is like a recipe for bread. Each baker must apply his general knowledge of how to bake bread, but each time it is cooked completely fresh.
Jane Hope and Borin Van Loon
Introducing Buddha: A graphic guide
The present moment is the only moment available…
The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.
-Thich Nhat Hanh