38063. “What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favourite day,” said Pooh. – A. A Milne August 8, 2021

38062. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hahn August 8, 2021

38061. “Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti August 8, 2021

38060. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha August 8, 2021

38059. “At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.”– Chuang Tzu August 8, 2021

38058. “If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!”- Thich Nhat Hanh August 8, 2021

38057. “This dew like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.” ― Dōgen Zenji August 8, 2021

38056. “Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.” ― Unknown August 8, 2021

38055. “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” ― Dalai Lama August 8, 2021

38054. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” ― Lao Tzu August 8, 2021

38039. “Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.”– Buddha August 8, 2021

38038. “As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.” – Buddha August 8, 2021

38037. “Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.” – Jack Kornfield August 8, 2021

38036. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”– Alan Watts August 8, 2021

38035. “One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.”– Dogen August 8, 2021

38034. “Wise men don’t judge – they seek to understand.” –Wei Wu Wei August 8, 2021

38047. “The real meditation is how you live your life.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn August 8, 2021

38046. “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” –Bodhidharma August 8, 2021

38045. “There is no mistake in nature.”- Byron Katie August 8, 2021

38044. “Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.”- Ramesh Balsekar August 8, 2021

38043. “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”- Alan Watts August 8, 2021

38042. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh August 8, 2021

38041. “Love is the absence of judgment.” ― Dalai Lama August 8, 2021

38040. “Act without expectation.” ― Lao Tzu August 8, 2021

38039. “The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.” ― Shunryu Suzuki August 8, 2021

38038. o·ver·due /ˌōvərˈd(y)o͞o/ not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time. August 8, 2021

38037. Cell Phone Sunday: Rose Edition August 8, 2021

38036. Roses, Raindrops, and Red August 8, 2021

38035. Purple Rain(drops) August 8, 2021

38032. ex·pose /ikˈspōz/ make (something) visible by uncovering it. August 8, 2021

38031. moot /mo͞ot/ subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty. August 8, 2021

38030. Flower of the Day for August 8, 2021 August 8, 2021

38029. “If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich.” ― Lao Tzu August 7, 2021

38028. “All that we are, is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” ― Buddha August 7, 2021

38027. “When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.”– Rachel Danson August 7, 2021

38026. “Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.” – Maezumi Roshi August 7, 2021

38025. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” Confucius August 7, 2021

38024. Smile, breathe and go slowly. ― Thích Nhất Hạnh August 7, 2021

38023. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. ― Dalai Lama August 7, 2021

38022. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. ― Dalai Lama August 7, 2021

38021. “The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”– Ram Dass August 7, 2021

38020. “To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.” – Suzuki Roshi August 7, 2021

38019. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle August 7, 2021

38018. “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.” Confucius August 7, 2021

38017. “When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.” Huang Po August 7, 2021

38016. “Let go, or be dragged.” Zen Proverb August 7, 2021

38015. “The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.”– Koun Yamada August 7, 2021

38014. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”– Eckhart Tolle August 7, 2021

38013. “Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.”- Huang Po August 7, 2021

38012. The basic principles of Zen teachings are to relax and be at utmost peace with oneself. “Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.” August 7, 2021

38011. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” – Jack Kornfield August 7, 2021

38010. “Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ― Buddha August 7, 2021

38009. “Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.”– Shunryu Suzuki August 7, 2021

38008. “Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.”– Zen Proverb August 7, 2021

38007. “The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” – Thich Nhat Hahn August 7, 2021

38006. “To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.” – Thich Nhat Hạnh August 7, 2021

38005. “When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu August 7, 2021

37900. “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” ― Dogen July 30, 2021

37899. “Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.” ― Alan W. Watts July 30, 2021

37898. “Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life July 30, 2021

37897. “Who we are now is all that really matters.” ― Amy Joy, The Academie July 30, 2021

37896. “To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.” ― Dōgen, A Primer Of Soto Zen July 30, 2021

37895. “He knows not where he’s going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It’s the glory of the ride” ― Edward Monkton, Zen Dog July 30, 2021

37894. “that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind” ― Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth July 30, 2021

37893. “Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles. Oogway: Quit, don’t quit? Noodles, don’t noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the “present.” ― Kung Fu Panda July 30, 2021

37892. “To preserve the silence within–amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens–no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.” ― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings July 30, 2021

37891. “To preserve the silence within–amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens–no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.” ― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings July 30, 2021

37890. “The things I carry are my thoughts. That’s it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.” ― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth July 30, 2021

37889. “Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.” ― Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind July 30, 2021

37888. “Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.” ― Santoka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda July 30, 2021

37887. “It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.” ― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai July 30, 2021

37886. “Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments of splendor and beauty. Tattoo in an acknowledgment and tribute to home, and tattooing your beliefs that define who you are. Whether we intended to or not, every moment of our lives are tattooed to our heart.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love July 30, 2021

37885. “One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.” ― Forrest Curran July 30, 2021

37884. “We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love July 30, 2021

37883. “When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution July 30, 2021

37882. “Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?” ― Kamand Kojouri July 30, 2021

37881. “As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love July 30, 2021

37880. “For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.” ― Forrest Curran July 30, 2021

37879. “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” ― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold July 30, 2021

37878. “Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.” ― Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma July 30, 2021

37877. “When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity July 30, 2021

37876. “Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.” ― Ryokan July 30, 2021

37875. “It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.” ― Jon J. Muth July 30, 2021

37874. “Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?” ― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture July 30, 2021

37873. “Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she’ll allow you into her chaos but she’ll also show you her magic.” ― Nikki Rowe July 30, 2021

37872. “Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.” ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation July 30, 2021

37871. “The more you know, the less you need.” ― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman July 30, 2021

37870. “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color–something which exists before all forms and colors appear… No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.” ― Shunryu Suzuki July 30, 2021

37869. “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution July 30, 2021

37868. “When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.” ― Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers July 30, 2021

37867. “A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?” Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason.” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of “ZEN Mind, Beginner’s Mind” July 30, 2021

37866. “Where there are humans, You’ll find flies, And Buddhas.” ― Kobayashi Issa July 30, 2021

37865. “Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning — already gone — thus should one regard one’s self.” ― Ikkyu July 30, 2021

37864. “The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.” ― Alan Watts July 30, 2021

37863. “Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.” ― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay July 30, 2021

37862. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice July 30, 2021

37861.“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.” ― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir July 30, 2021

37860. “If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.” ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs July 30, 2021

37859. “But when you’re in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you’re guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It’s very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That’s when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.” ― George Carlin, Last Words July 30, 2021

37858. “Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?” ― Susan Gordon Lydon, The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice July 30, 2021