Watch me melt into mother earth. Sink into the roots of civilization. And fade into drifts of wind carrying the seeds filled with wisdom. Passed on to new generations to come. Absorbed into the youth of enlightenment, but forgotten by the ignorance of life.
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
Osho.
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Physical death is a more dramatic manifestation of the dying that goes on continually throughout the day. We are perpetually facing the beginnings and endings of situations and circumstances without appreciating the emotional toll that these small births and deaths have on our lives. It can be as subtle as forgetting a thought or as common as falling asleep. Change itself is death.
Rodney Smith.
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When Xingyang was chief gardener he was tending the melons. Dayang asked him, “When will the sweet melons be ripe?”
Xingyang said, “Now they’re already very ripe.”
Dayang said, “Pick the sweet ones and take them away.”
Xingyang said, “To whom shall I give them?”
Dayang said, “Give them to someone who hasn’t been in the garden.”
Xingyang said, “Do you think the people who haven’t been in the garden will eat them?”
Dayang said, “Do you know these people or not?”
Xingyang said, “Although I don’t know them, I can’t help but provide for them.”
Dayang laughed and went off.from Zen’s Chinese Heritage.
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Emptiness is not a negative state, it denotes a mind that has no tension, no worry or fear, and is wide open to see the Dharma within. Such a mind has let go of all preconceived ideas about the world and the people in it. If our ideas up to now have not brought total and absolute happiness, it is much better to let go of them and be an empty vessel into which the Dharma can be poured. As the Dharma fills us, it changes our outlook and eventually brings us to right view.
Ayya Khema.
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