Weg van Zijn

16/08/2023

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13/02/2023

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Those with faith can take refuge.
Those with compassion can have bodhicitta.
Those with wisdom can gain realisation.
Those with devotion can experience blessings.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

01/02/2023

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You never receive blessings just from asking. Blessings come when you have got devotion.

~ Guru Rinpoche

22/05/2022

Zo herkenbaar. Als mediteren overgaat in non-meditation 💙

THE HEART OF MEDITATION

People sometimes ask me, “Jeff, do you meditate?”

The answer is no, I don’t.

Or, well, yes, I do, depending on how you define meditation.

I have no formal meditation practice. No schedule. No technique.

No incense. No guru photos on my side table.

I never tell myself, “I am meditating now”.

And yet, throughout the day, I find myself deep in meditation. Absorbed in the Immediacy.

What is this meditation, then?

Pure fascination with this moment,
exactly as it is.

Allowing everything to be.

Drenching one’s present experience in curiosity.

Not adding anything.
Not taking anything away.
No goal. No seeking. No agenda.
No special state to attain.
No special experience to have.

Pure wonder.
The extraordinary ordinariness of what is.
Life being lived.

Ultimately it’s not something I’m doing.
Ultimately it’s who I truly am.
This wide open, child-like, innocent awareness, gently absorbing every sound, sight, smell, sensation, feeling, tenderly pulling in a ‘world’, yes, embracing a world as a mother embraces her young child.

I am the mother of my world, then.
I am the space that holds the ordinariness.
I am the silence at the heart of things.
I am the Capacity for joy and great sorrow.
I need never seek a more ‘alive’, a more ‘profound’ or ‘spiritual’ experience, for this ordinary moment is so profoundly holy. So beautiful. Awash with grace.

Complete. Always complete.

The cracked glass of a bus shelter.
The look on a stranger’s face, both concealing and betraying aeons of pain and longing.
The chill on my cheek as I walk to meet a good friend.

I used to meditate.
Meditation got into my very bones.
Now I am meditation.
The vastness that holds an entire world.

- Jeff Foster

22/01/2022

Prachtig 🙏

"This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life."

No Death, No Fear ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

In Honour and Celebration of
THICH NHAT HANH
Beloved and Revered Zen Master
11 October 1926 - 22 January 2022

A Guided Meditation in honour of this great Master—"From Beginning-less Time I Have Always Been Free"—can be found here: mooji.org/satsangs/from-beginning-less-time-i-have-always-been-free-guided-meditation-in-honour-of-thich-nhat-hanh

A most extraordinary spiritual teacher and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh touched and inspired millions of lives with his teachings and guidance. Known for his peaceful nature, tender compassion and bright wisdom, he is an immense force for peace and healing in the world. A true bodhisattva, he brings out the authentic radiance of Buddhism—we honour his presence and all that he imparted to the world.

Known as Thay to his followers, he began to transition at midnight, and passed away peacefully at 1.30am on January 22, 2022 at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at the age of 95. Our love, prayers and blessings are with him and his Sangha at this profound time.

"This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life."

No Death, No Fear ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

You can find out more about the passing of this great Zen Master, including information about the memorial services are taking place around the world here: https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/thich-nhat-hanhs-health/thich-nhat-hanh-11-11-1926-01-22-2022/

10/12/2021

Volgens mij hebben deze mensen het helemaal begrepen

03/07/2020

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Freedom is timeless. It is constantly present.

~ Longchenpa