Meditation

Meditate: every moment counts. Find a few moments every day. Find the gaps in between our thoughts, and simply sit with those empty spaces instead of the thoughts... just let the thoughts go. If they come, just let them go... find instead the void... and let the void grow.

From the void all things come, so only in the void does everything exist.
In the west we say that everything comes from somewhere; but in our teaching Everything comes from nothing. In the nothing there is potential for everything.

Quote: Thich Nhat Hanh

There is no way to happiness,
happiness is the way.

You should be happy right in the here and now.
There is no way to enlightenment.
Enlightenment should be right here and right now.
The moment when you come back to yourself, mind and body together,
fully present, fully alive, that is already enlightenment.
You are no longer a sleepwalker.
You are no longer in a dream.
You are fully alive.
You are awake.
Enlightenment is there.

And if you continue each moment like that,
enlightenment becomes deeper.
More powerful.

There is no way to enlightenment,
enlightenment is the way.
Vietnamese zen buddhist monk - Thich Nhat Hanh

John Muir Quote

I only went out for a walk and then stayed till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." John Muir

Quote from Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa

Quote from Shakyamuni Butsu

When Shakhamuni's time to die was coming, his disciples gathered and asked who would be their teacher when he was gone. This was his answer./

"Be lamps unto yourselves.
Be refuges unto yourselves.
Take yourself no external refuge.
Hold fast to the truth as a lamp.
Hold fast to the truth as a refuge.
Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves.
And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead,
Shall be a lamp unto themselves,
Shall betake themselves as no external refuge,
But holding fast to the truth as their lamp,
Holding fast to the truth as their refuge,
Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves,
It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height;
But they must be anxious to learn."
(Quoted in Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight)

African Proverb

"The path is made by walking"

From 'Peace Pilgrim'

We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them to a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture. No action is fruitless.

There is within the hearts of people deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they were not bound by apathy, by ignorance, by fear. It is the job of peacemakers to inspire them from their apathy, to dispel their ignorance with truth, to allay their fear with faith that God's laws work - and work for good....My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things...