We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here... Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It's a trick for setting aside your to-do list, if only for a few moments, and actually locate a feeling of fulfilment in the present
Buddha is our inherent nature__ur buddha nature__nd what that means is that if you__e going to grow up fully, the way that it happens is that you begin to connect with the intelligence that you already have. It__ not like some intelligence that__ going to be transplanted into you. If you__e going to be fully mature, you will no longer be imprisoned in the childhood feeling that you always need to protect yourself or shield yourself because things are too harsh. If you__e going to be a grown-up__hich I would define as being completely at home in your world no matter how difficult the situation__t__ because you will allow something that__ already in you to be nurtured. You allow it to grow, you allow it to come out, instead of all the time shielding it and protecting it and keeping it buried. Someone once told me, __hen you feel afraid, that__ __earful buddha.__ That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the next thing you know you__e yelling or throwing something or hitting someone. At that time, begin to accept the fact that that__ __nraged buddha._ If you feel jealous, that__ __ealous buddha._ If you have indigestion, that__ __uddha with heartburn._ If you__e happy, __appy buddha_; if bored, __ored buddha._ In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
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Buddha is our inherent nature__ur buddha nature__nd what that means is that if you__e going to grow up fully, the way that it happens is that you begin to connect with the intelligence that you already have. It__ not like some intelligence that__ going to be transplanted into you. If you__e going to be fully mature, you will no longer be imprisoned in the childhood feeling that you always need to protect yourself or shield yourself because things are too harsh. If you__e going to be a grown-up__hich I would define as being completely at home in your world no matter how difficult the situation__t__ because you will allow something that__ already in you to be nurtured. You allow it to grow, you allow it to come out, instead of all the time shielding it and protecting it and keeping it buried. Someone once told me, __hen you feel afraid, that__ __earful buddha.__ That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the next thing you know you__e yelling or throwing something or hitting someone. At that time, begin to accept the fact that that__ __nraged buddha._ If you feel jealous, that__ __ealous buddha._ If you have indigestion, that__ __uddha with heartburn._ If you__e happy, __appy buddha_; if bored, __ored buddha._ In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.
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To speak conventionally - and I think it is easier for the general reader to see Zen thus presented - there are unknown recesses in our minds which lie beyond the threshold of the relatively constructed consciousness. To designate them as __ub-conciousness_ or __upra-consciousness_ is not correct. The word __eyond_ is used simply because it is a most convenient term to indicate their whereabouts. But as a matter of fact there is no __eyond_, no __nderneath_, no __pon_ in our consciousness. The mind is one indivisible whole and cannot be torn in pieces. The so-called terra incognita is the concession of Zen to our ordinary way of talking, because whatever field of consciousness that is known to us is generally filled with conceptual riffraff, and to get rid of them, which is absolutely necessary for maturing Zen experience, the Zen psychologist sometimes points to the presence of some inaccessible region in our minds. Though in actuality there is no such region apart from our everyday consciousness, we talk of it as generally more easily comprehensible by us.
Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.
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