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“Sometimes the soul knows of an impending shift before the shift arrives.”

Soul Poetry Inner Work

Book:Temple of Warm Harmony

Source: Temple of Warm Harmony

“Ascension is not arrival. Ascension is making it back.”

Soul Transformation Dark Night Of The Soul Inner Work

Book:Temple of Warm Harmony

Source: Temple of Warm Harmony

“Heart-Mind, left to its natural state, is vast as a panorama of Nature.”

Nature Inner Peace Zen Wabi Sabi Shinto Heart Mind

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“Make the sunrise a temple.”

Poetry Nature Zen Inner Work Shinto Ecopsychology

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“He asked me, as if looking for one definitive moment in time: 'How did Zen begin?' I pondered the matter a moment. 'Some say it started with a flower held up in the air, but you can't rely on formulas. Zen man Ikkyu was enlightened by the sound of a squawking crow.”

Poetry Zen Origins

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“When you are part of the caravan of crazy clouds you start to become a little less domesticated and a little more like wild mountain weather.”

Life Poetry Perspective Zen

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“I used to keep a strong scaffolding in place. It separated Pure Land from Zen Zen from Dao Dharma quarantined from the way of mountain spirits. With a sudden glance in the middle of a storm, the bottom dropped out the scaffolding fell along with my mind and all of these nectars poured into the same vat.”

Poetry Zen Dao Kami Shinto

Book:Temple of Warm Harmony

Source: Temple of Warm Harmony

“In these times, when even a simple day can feel like a firing pin, stretching corpse-like upon the earth is not leisure. It is medicine.”

Zen Forest Bathing Shinto Shinrin Yoku Ecopsychology

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“There is something bittersweet about letting go; about parting from anyone or anything that holds memory. But it is Spring. The weather is nice outside tonight. I put my writing utensils away for the rest of the season and take back up the old practices of the Forest-Sitting Religion.”

Poetry Nature Seasons Zen Kami

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“Mind connecting to Earth is not mere mental projection. You are, in fact, being met. Body connecting to Earth is not mere leisure. Life-healing powers are extending outward to embrace you.”

Zen Forest Bathing Shinrin Yoku

Book:Temple of Warm Harmony

Source: Temple of Warm Harmony

“There’s a form of nourishment that only you can give to yourself and if you don’t learn the language of how that’s done, even on your last day here you will have remained a stranger to yourself and all those with whom you kept company.”

Self

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention

“Spring night in winter. The door open to night air. A family walks by. A child laughs with glee. Night-Sit. I ponder an old phrase of Ikkyu's: The buddhadharma is also the Way of Tea. A bolt of lightning splits my brain open and I pour down into my own heart.”

Poetry Tea Zazen Senchado

Book:The School of Soft Attention

Source: The School of Soft Attention