Awake

Being one with it all is your practice. It is not your practice to say, “This isn’t good, I don’t want it,” or “That’s a good thing, I’d like it.” You give that all up. You are free from acceptance and rejection. Then you will embrace real joy. This joy is so profound that you will not cling to it or fear its loss. You will find your inexhaustible treasure. You will possess your wish-fulfilling jewel, and you will lack nothing.” “Do everything sincerely. Sincerely feel what you are feeling. Sincerely see what you are seeing. Sincerely express who you are. Sincerely experience what you are interested in experiencing. Look at others sincerely. Sincerely have curiosity. It’s okay. Whatever you do, just do it sincerely.

Excerpts from Living Fully, Finding Joy In Every Breath Shyalpa Rinpoche

When you don’t have obsession, When you don’t have hang-ups, When you don’t have inhibition, When you are not afraid you will be breaking certain rules, When you are not afraid you will not fulfill somebody’s expectation, What more enlightenment do you want? That’s it.

Khyentse Norbu

Existence is an inexplicable, vibrant, pulsing dance − an indefinable happening, simply happening. Do you live as that, or do you linger in conflicted fantasies of thought?

Darryl Bailey

Since all things are naked, clear, and free from obscurations, there is nothing to attain or realize. The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions to all people- Experiencing everything totally without reservations or blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into ones-self.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

As all things are buddha-dharma, there is delusion and realization, practice, birth and death, and there are buddhas and sentient beings. As the myriad things are without an abiding self, there is no delusion, no realization, no buddha, no sentient being, no birth or death. The buddha way is, basically, leaping clear of the many and the one; thus there are birth and death, delusion and realization, sentient beings and buddhas. Yet in attachment blossoms fall, and in aversion weeds spread. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. Those who have great realization of delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about realization are sentient beings.

Eihei Dogen from Genjokoan

Each of us express our vow in our own unique way.

Shohaku Okamura

The person with wisdom fundamentally does not dwell anywhere. The bright moon cherishes being carried away by the flowing water. The clouds part and the mountains appear. The moon sets and the water is cool. Each bit of autumn contains vast interpenetration without bounds.

Honghzi Zengjue

Dogen is not saying there is some absolutely right view. He is saying the right view is to see our view as limited and conditioned.

Shohaku Okamura

Sometime go outside and sit, in the evening at sunset, where there is a slight breeze that touches your body, And makes the leaves and trees move gently. You’re not trying to do anything, really. You’re simply allowing yourself to be, Very open from deep within, Without holding on to anything whatsoever. Don’t bring something back from the past, from a memory. Don’t plan that something should happen. Don’t hold on to anything in the present. Nothing you perceive needs to be nailed down. Simply let experience take place, very freely, So that your empty, open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Reality prior to division- herein lies unlimited depth.

Kosho Uchiyama

Though clear waters range to the vast autumn sky, How can they compare to the hazy moon on a spring night! Most people want to have pure clarity, But sweep as you will, you cannot empty the mind.

Keizan Zenji

Riding the horse of mirage Watching the sea of stars Blossoming great eastern sun

Dorje Dradul of Mukpo

We are nothing other than the relation of billions of things. Knowing this is the process of practice and study.

Tenshin Anderson

Know that in this way there are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, and yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth. The study of this is the beginning of practice. When you are at this place, there is just one grass, there is just one form; there is understanding of form and no-understanding of form; there is understanding of grass and no-understanding of grass. Since there is nothing but just this moment, the time-being is all the time there is. Grass-being, form-being are both time. Each moment is all being, is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

Dogen Zenji (Uji - Time Being)

At the time of arising, thoughts support each other like a chain of friends. At the time of dissolving, they dissolve evenly in the vastness of openness. The ultimate nature of phenomena is just this.

James Low

Ultimately nothing is “happening” because happening is just another word we put on things.

Reb Anderson

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on 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 the small puddle. In fact the whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass- or even a drop of water. Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dew drop, and realizes the limitless of the moonlight in the sky.

Eihei Dogen

Breath is priceless. If we realize that, then we realize all breathing beings are here on a journey together. It doesn’t matter our color, background, or creed. If we are breathing, we are loveable.

H.E. Shyalpa Rinpoche

It is essential to actually know the heart of the matter as it is. In the absolute sense, there are no sentient beings who experience dissatisfaction. The dissatisfaction is as empty as the clear sky, but because of attachment to the form displays of emptiness through interdependent origination, the relative sphere of things becomes an illusory trap in which there are sentient beings who experience dissatisfaction. This is the meaning of samsara.

H.H Dudjom Rinpoche

If you’re not in awe - you’re not paying attention.

Kokyo Henkel

You are that vast thing you see far, far off with giant telescopes.

Alan Watts