"When understood, the Buddha’s universe..is anything but alien and inhibiting. It is a world full of hope, where everything we need to do can be done and everything that matters is within human reach. It is a world where kindness, unselfishness, non-violence, and compassion achieve what self-interest and arrogance cannot. It is a world where any human can be happy in goodness and the fullness of giving." ❦ Eknath Easwara

September 14, 2011

If You Look for Truth Outside Yourself

If you look for the truth outside yourself,
it gets farther and farther away.

Today, walking alone,
I meet him everywhere I step.

He is the same as me,
yet I am not him.

Only if you understand it in this way
will you merge with the way things are.

~ Zen Master Tung-Shan
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Posted by Steve Goodheart at Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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  1. UnknownJanuary 17, 2012 at 11:04 PM

    Walking mediation is good because after awhile you are really in your head and the breath is easy. You go places you've never been and he is walking with you.

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    1. Steve GoodheartFebruary 28, 2012 at 2:18 PM

      Thanks for your comment! I love walking meditation and do it regularly. Sometimes I just can't sit, so I walk and work with the breath. It's a great and deep practice.

      With warm metta,
      Steve

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