Zengriff-v2 - Zengriff

“The aesthetic principles of Zen include wabi-sabi (侘寂), the aesthetic of “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" beauty, yugen (幽玄): profound grace and deep awareness of the Universe; datsuzoku (脱俗): free and unbounded by convention and seijaku (静寂): tranquility, stillness…”

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Ecological Consciousness

art by Tsuchiya-Koitsu

Tofuku-ji Hojo ‘東福寺方丈’ (the Garden of Eight Views) Kyoto, Japan built by Mirei Shigemori (1939)

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."

Eckhart Tolle

Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” Eckhart Tolle

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

Mooji

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

— Ram Dass