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mindofbob: “Zen is very simple. Dishwashing time, just wash dishes; sitting time, just sit; driving time, just drive; talking time, just talk; walking time, just walk.” That’s all. Not special. But that is very difficult. That is absolutes thinking. When you’re doing something, just do it. No opposites. No subject, no object. No inside, no outside. Outside and inside become one. That’s called absolutes. It’s easy to talk about “When you’re doing something, just do it,” but action is very difficult. Sitting: thinking, thinking, thinking. Chanting: also thinking, thinking. Bowing time: not so much, but some thinking, thinking, checking, checking mind appear. Then you have a problem. But don’t hold. Thinking is OK. Checking is OK. Only holding is a problem. Don’t hold. Feeling coming, going, OK. Don’t hold. If your mind is not holding anything, it is clear like space. Clear like space means that sometimes clouds come, sometimes rain or lightning or airplane comes, or even a missile blows up, BOOM! World explodes, but the air is never broken. This space is never broken.” ~Seung Sahn

mindofbob:

“Zen is very simple. Dishwashing time, just wash dishes; sitting time, just sit; driving time, just drive; talking time, just talk; walking time, just walk.” That’s all. Not special. But that is very difficult. That is absolutes thinking. When you’re doing something, just do it. No opposites. No subject, no object. No inside, no outside. Outside and inside become one. That’s called absolutes.

It’s easy to talk about “When you’re doing something, just do it,” but action is very difficult. Sitting: thinking, thinking, thinking. Chanting: also thinking, thinking. Bowing time: not so much, but some thinking, thinking, checking, checking mind appear. Then you have a problem.

But don’t hold. Thinking is OK. Checking is OK. Only holding is a problem. Don’t hold. Feeling coming, going, OK. Don’t hold. If your mind is not holding anything, it is clear like space. Clear like space means that sometimes clouds come, sometimes rain or lightning or airplane comes, or even a missile blows up, BOOM! World explodes, but the air is never broken. This space is never broken.” ~Seung Sahn

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“ This is what should animate the political debate we are having over immigration: the common acknowledgement that people other than ourselves always have had a purchase on the country’s promise and, if the country bucked and pulled and resisted them, sooner or later, it would return to its senses and grudgingly, demanding work on both sides, give up enough of itself to admit the new Americans over the sometimes noxious objections of the old. My grandfather came here because he didn’t want to be a priest. My grandmother came here because being a domestic worker looked like a better deal than tending the flocks on the hills outside Listowel. Today, there are people coming here because trimming the Romney hedges looks like a better deal than living amid the drug violence in Sinaloa, or scratching out a living farming a pock-marked hillside in El Salvador. We must have a policy on this issue and it has to make sense. But first, the rest of us have to admit something that the old WASP establishment and the Nativist mobs were forced to admit long ago. America belongs to nobody and it belongs to everybody. Admit that, and you’ve become an American. - charles p. pierce
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Reblogged from engagedelectorate
“ To me, you become an American when you acknowledge within yourself that the country doesn’t belong to you. That it is something held in common by the Italian butcher, and the French-Canadian mechanic, and the Irish cop from a parish different from yours. That it is something that will be held in common by the Cambodian store owner and the Salvadoran kid whose parents went through the hell at the border to get him here, and who grew up and became a Marine, and who now works stocking shelves for the Cambodian guy while he waits for the country he served to get around to deciding if there is a piece of it he can have. You become an American, finally, when you admit there are other Americans, and that these Americans build their own personal Americas of the mind and of the heart, and that they do it through what they brought here from countries far away. Charles P. Pierce (via engagedelectorate)

(Source: esquire.com, via engagedelectorate)


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Reblogged from lucifelle
“ A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse. Dalai Lama (via babydoll1976)

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Reblogged from jhnmyr
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Back from a little touring break, loaded up with some material, and ready to get out there…..

jhnmyr:

Here’s a clip of the first single off Born and Raised, called “Shadow Days.” I’m excited to share the first bit of sound from the album… Been looking forward to a post like this since October 14, 2010, the first day I started writing this group of songs. Enjoy.



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….I know that since the light has to travel a vast distance, it will arrive after the event has occurred. So the further away something happens, the longer it takes to reach our eyes. I know that, when we look up to the sky, that’s the past—seconds, minutes, years, centuries and millennia away.

But that doesn’t matter. Every time I think about this, I experience the same sensation. One of awe and humility. And also of wonderment, thinking that my own existence and the existence of the people around me, the people I loved, the people I love, and the people I will love, is happening. Right now, in the middle of this huge storm that is the Universe. And then, my mind and my heart explode…

Jesus Diaz - Gizmodo

http://gizmodo.com/5884206/the-pillars-of-creation-were-actually-destroyed-before-we-discovered-them
Reblogged from brotips

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Reblogged from iloveyoursoul
so true… 

so true… 

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