Gladdening the mind
Why True Ease Isn't Something We Build, But What Remains When We Uncloak
A Zen parable from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, goes like this: A man walking across a field encountered a tiger. He fled. The tiger chased him to a precipice, where he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. A second tiger hungrily waited below. Trembling while he clung only to the vine, the man looked down—he saw two mice, one white and one black, gnawing little by little at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Holding onto the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted!
Be a Buddha for one day
Anyone who spends time in deep practice eventually encounters the trap of trying to recreate the quiet bliss of a past retreat. Yet the plain, unglamorous moments of daily life are where practice actually matures.
This is just a simple game—an invitation to stop taking the inner life so seriously, play for a moment, and forget about it for the rest of the day. Because in the small, ordinary moments, we are still Buddhas.
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The Sanskrit alphabet
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