But we are messing ourselves up, - we are embarking on strange relationships that do not bear fruit. - A religious life is a process of reconciliation at any moment, incessantly. - If we really share what we have, - our time, our possessions, our home, ourselves, - our life will be harmonious and undisturbed. - We can give something from us and open ourselves, - or we can keep it and dry up. - Close in relationships the door to criticism and indelicacy! - Dedication can not be forced - through nagging, annoyance, denial, through any coquettish maneuvers, even though we try all this! - We do not necessarily have to dedicate ourselves to another human being. - We can also give ourselves to solitude ... - For most of us, the least are the people we do not like - or with whom we have difficulties. - To meet our expectations we are ruining families, nations, everything. - Every war has such fixed ideas as the cause, - an ideology which is held by a nation for the truth! - False thinking is always dictatorial. - It wants to push the world into a scheme - instead of opening itself to the obvious necessities (see e.g. solar & wind energy, see a tiny UBI etc. - d.48). - Zen as a way, - in order to get to grips with everyday problems! - Zen as an attitude - which helps us in relationships, at work, in our fears and suffering ... (C. J. Beck, San Diego)
There was nothing to see. No goal after which one could strive. - There was simply the unity and the totality of life itself. - All the old questions, which were not questions at all, answered by themselves ... (Mushin)
"Love is not love which alters - when it alteration finds"... (Shakespeare)
Charlotte Joko Beck (March 27, 1917 – June 15, 2011) was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing ...Died: June 15, 2011 (aged 94)
Mushin in Japanese and Wuxin in Chinese (無心 "no mind") is a mental state. Zen and Daoist meditators are said to reach this state, as well as artists and trained ...
Shakespeare wrote his works between about 1590 and 1613. He is considered ... Shakespeare added new words and phrases to the English language. He also ...Occupation: Playwright; poet; actor
Resting place: Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratf...