Mindfulness and alertness are like two people lifting a heavy log. A third person is watching and when he sees that the log is heavy, he comes to help. When it’s heavy like that, he can’t not help. He has to help. The person helping here is discernment. It can’t stay still. When there’s mindfulness and alertness, discernment has to run in and join them.

~ Ajahn Chah [source: In Simple Terms – 108 Dhamma Similes by Venerable Ajahn Chah (Translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu)]

THURSDAY, June 23, 2022

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Image (1) – ‘Logs by the Path’ – Keeper Hill Trail, Doonane Forest, Tipperary, Ireland – October 2019
Image (2) – ‘Solitary Kuti’ – The Barn Retreat Centre, Totnes, Devon, England – November 2007

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

~ Denis Waitley

MONDAY, June 20, 2022

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Image: ‘Footprints in the Sand ’ – Fanore Beach, County Clare, Ireland – April 2016

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything… if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer.

~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) [source: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind]

SUNDAY, June 19, 2022

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Image 1 – ‘Sunset on Gabriola’ – Gabriola Island, Vancouver Island, Canada – September 2019
Image 2 – ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ – Craggagh, County Clare, Ireland – November 2015

This is your life and it’s ending one moment at a time.

~ Chuck Palahniuk [source: Fight Club (book and movie)]

THURSDAY, June 16, 2022

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Image – ‘Single Discarded Glove’ – Fanore Beach, County Clare, Ireland – September 2015

Where nothing is, there is everything. All efforts are for the sake of this realization only.

~ Anandamayi Ma [source: Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience edited by Peter Heehs]

MONDAY, June 13, 2022

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Image (1) – ‘Meditation Hall in the Hey’ – Wat Thamkrabok Monastery, Saraburi, Thailand – March 2013
Image (2) – ‘Empty Chairs’ – Being Human: A Hungry Ghost Retreat at the Margret Austin Center, Texas, USA – June 2018

There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

~ Buddha [source: Dhammapada verse #39 – this translation by Bodhipaksa]

SUNDAY, June 12, 2022

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Image (1) – ‘Breakfast at the Riverside’ – Bangkok, Thailand – June 2022
Image (2) – Taken from https://www.realbuddhaquotes.com/there-is-no-fear-for-one-whose-mind-is-not-filled-with-desires-the-buddha/ 

All that arises passes away; this is the Natural law.

~ Ajahn Chah

THURSDAY, June 09, 2022

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Image – ‘Old and New – Prayer Flags’ at Being Human: A Hungry Ghost Retreat at New Life Foundation, Chiang Rai, Thailand – April 2018

…grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr [source: Serenity Prayer]

MONDAY, June 06, 2022

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When we realize the everlasting truth of “everything changes” and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

~ Master Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971) [source: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind]

THURSDAY, June 02, 2022

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All welcome.

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Image 1 – ‘Clock Tower’ – Chiang Rai, Thailand – March 2016
Image 2 – ‘Ensure Correct Changes’ – Hong Kong – August 2016

You are no more to concern yourself how the world talks of you, but how you are to talk to yourself.

~ Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) [source: On Solitude (essay)]

MONDAY, May 30, 2022

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