Spirituality
“One of the hardest things I’ve had to understand is that closure comes from within. Especially difficult if you’ve been betrayed by someone you love because you feel like you gotta let them know the pain they caused, but the peace you seek can only be given to you by...
‘The path to awakening Is impossible to map. It is lofty but has no ‘above’; Impossible to reach its limit.’ Jingjue
Trigger warning: This story mentions addiction, relapse, trauma, and suicidal thoughts. Marcus openly shares that his journey of recovery is a lifelong path. He acknowledges that it is not linear and has involved relapse, proving that a setback does not mean the...
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” ~Nelson Mandela First, I slept in a snow shelter at -20°C. Second, I stood alone on a stage in Montreal and tried to make strangers laugh. Third, I stuck out my thumb on the side of a highway with nothing...
‘True understanding — if you have genuine insight, birth and death will not affect you, and you will be free to come and to go.’ Zen Master Rinzai
‘The Buddha’s rejection of both annihilationism and nihilism offers a profound insight into the nature of existence — one that transcends the conventional ideas of life and death, being and non-being.’ Everyday Buddhism
‘Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School and attach no importance to rituals, and whose mind functions always under right views, so that they are absolutely free from defilements or contaminations, are said to know their Essence of Mind.’ Hui Neng
‘But as a real refuge to take in order to see and realise the truth, you can look at the Buddha as that which is mindful, the pure intelligent awareness.’ Ajahn Sumedho
“Sometimes walking away is the only way to stop walking away from yourself.” ~Unknown I was between sessions. My TV was on in the background—something I’d half-started watching called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu—as I walked into the kitchen to make myself...
“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.” ~Shinichi Suzuki I knew exactly what to say to my narcissistic mother. I just could never say it. For twenty years I studied every technique in the book. Gray rocking (becoming emotionally neutral...