
“Zenfully Quool Quotes”
Currently featuring “The Art of Living”
By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
We may be able to see the wonders around us and yet
still doubt that we ourselves are a wonder too.
We feel inadequate.
We’re yearning for something else, something more.
We are like a saucepan wandering around looking for a lid.
We lack confidence in ourselves and in our capacity to be
peaceful, compassionate, and awakened.
We feel overwhelmed by our difficulties.
And so we continue to go about our daily life feeling that we lack something.
We’ve got to ask ourselves,
“What am I lacking? What am I looking for?”
To practice aimlessness is to identify what it is you’re
looking for, waiting for, or running after,
and let it go.
By removing these objects of seeking
that are pulling you away from the here and now,
you will discover that everything you want
is already right here in the present moment.
You don’t need to “be someone” or do something
in order to be happy and free.
If you ask a flower blooming on the mountainside,
or a tree standing majestically in the forest,
“What are you looking for?,”
how would they reply?
If you have some mindfulness and concentration,
you will hear their answer in your heart.
Each one of us has to be our true self:
fresh, solid, at ease, loving, and compassionate.
When we are our true selves,
not only do we benefit,
but everyone around us profits from our presence.
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Zenfully Quool Quotes Quommentary
by rog
In today’s chaotic ‘modern’ life…
With abundant ways to get information…
But in most cases…
The information is biased.
Misinformation and dis-information is the bedrock of most politics,
Particularly the demagogue conservative movement.
There is no longer any moral or academic ‘common ground’…
It’s all a matter of brainwashing the mentally vulnerable.
No longer can we attempt to have an intellectual dialog.
When facts are pointed out, the response is basically:
“Don’t confuse me with the facts…
I “Know” what I believe to be true…
Simply because I’ve been told to believe.”
This tactic is used in both of the two main important factors in life.
Politics – that are in charge for the human condition in this ‘here & now’…
And
The eternal nature of our True Being….
We leave both of these profound aspects
up to someone else!…
And they do NOT have humanities best interest in mind.
So,
It’s best to understand that there will be no intellectual discourse…
Facts, reason, morality and everything dear to humanity …
is out the door.
One must realize to continue to attempt to talk reason
with the unreasonable is akin to
trying to teach a pig to sing.
I will just waste your time…
And
Annoy the pig.

Pigs will fly and sing long before our current society
will ever pull its head out of its collective ass.
So,
Understand that,
Those that cling to such disastrous misbeliefs are victims
of their own ideology and sky god theology.
They will never see the forest for the trees.
Their mental vulnerability has them so willfully ignorant
that they support politics that are very much
against their own best interests and
condemn their very own children’s future.
Have compassion.
They know not what they do.
So,
Just smile….
If the smile is genuine…
It will help crack a smile… even on these folks…
That will indeed make the world a better place…
One smile at a time.
This won’t save us from us…
But,
It will help us learn to flow with an imperturbable groove…
That what comes… comes.
Our well-being is not effected by the chaos of this life.