Brenda Shoshanna Quotes
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A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
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Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.
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In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.
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From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion ignorance.
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What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
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God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.
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All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.
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When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.
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We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.
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This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.
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When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.
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What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.
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The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.
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We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
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All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.
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If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
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Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.
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When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.
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All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.
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When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
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The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.
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Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.
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Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
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We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.