Embracing Each Moment by Anam Thubten-优快云博客

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I’m even grateful to problems.

They woke me up from my illusions

and led me to the path of compassion.

I would not trade them for anything.

I can show you the way, but your liberation depends on you.

It turned out that it is all about becoming aware of your own limits and learning how to love. Quite simply, this is what Buddhism is all about. Memorize it and perhaps you won’t have to buy many more Buddhist books. Let me repeat this. It is all about becoming aware of your own limits and then learning how to love. To become aware of your own limits is to become aware of your own fear. You don’t have to reject your fear or transcend it. All you need to do is recognize your fear and be a witness to it.

Once you witness your fear, it has no power over you. It begins to lose its grip on you. Soon fear becomes your neighbor. You can dance with it. Eventually fear turns into an ally and becomes your friend and a part of you. Your neuroses become your intelligence. When fear rules you, it becomes a neurosis. When it loses power over you, it becomes intelligence. It helps you survive. It helps you find a way in this life. It helps you get around.

Fear can be a form of intelligence. Without fear, we could never survive. We might walk over a cliff, drink poison, or jump into a fire. So fear is a form of intelligence, not something to be eradicated.

Think of a dewdrop on a blade of grass. You know how exquisite it is. If you are a skilled photographer, you can zoom your camera in on that tiny dewdrop on the grass in the early morning. It can be a truly beautiful picture. You capture its eternal beauty one moment, and in the next moment it may be gone. Just like that our existence is truly exquisite and fragile at the same time.

Now and then you have to lose your mind to wake up. Above all, when you know how to pause, then anything you do in life can be a ritual. So the pause, the art of pausing, is the most essential thing to learn.

The truth is the only way you can achieve unconditional happiness is by knowing how to tune in to this truth, this subtle and pervasive truth, the sacredness of everything. Then your relationship with people becomes alive and filled with reverence and love, and you no longer objectify people. Finally you know how to feel unconditional love. Then you may feel that this world is your home, even though it sometimes has a lot of imperfections. It is still your home. You may feel that this world is heaven. Not heaven as you thought, but heaven with lots of imperfections. Then you may feel this spirit everywhere in the world of nature, in the trees and animals. You may feel a deep reverence and heart connection with everything that exists. You’ll find that you are a modern mystic. You’ll be a mystic whose heart is drunk with love. In the end, the emptiness you felt as a terrifying condition and tried to get rid of by all kinds of creative means turned out to be sacred, a doorway to your aloneness that was always perfect and lacked nothing.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. David Attenborough

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. David Attenborough

Once you become aware of your coarse neuroses as well as your subtle neuroses, love them. Love all your neuroses. Love all your imperfections. Learn to love your fear and your anger as well. Always be aware of them, and they will dissolve on their own. They will keep dissolving by themselves without any effort.

People are always seeking paradise, but didn't realize that the life they are living now is already a paradise.

--Quote by Myself

“Don’t seek nirvana in the future, but find nirvana here, here in the nowness.” It is the state you find yourself in after complete surrender.

Don’t waste this precious gift called your human life.

But the truth is that we are dying. The moment we are born, we are dying. We are, of course, living fully, but we are also dying. Every breath is actually the sound of the clock ticking. We are getting closer and closer to this world of the unknown, death. What will matter to us at that moment is love.

True inner peace can only arise when you stop believing your own mind. As long as you believe your own mind, there is no peace, either inside or outside. Let’s stop believing our thoughts, our emotions, and our perceptions for a while.

Buddha said that the root of all human suffering is craving. He talked about three types of craving: craving for existence, craving for sensual pleasure, and craving for nonexistence.

The thirteenth-century Zen master Bunan wrote this beautiful poem: “Die while you are alive and be absolutely dead, and then you can do whatever you want, it’s all good.”

Surrendering and letting go of all our attachments and all our obsessions is a form of dying.