Hello, I'm Daniel Diaz. Eastern Religious Studies Major. This is a blog devoted to all things Eastern: from yoga, to martial arts, benefits of meditation and tips, to lessons on Buddhism, images, excerpts and more!
Slowly Defrosting…
Hello my Dearest Tumblrs!
So I’ve been gone for a long time now, primarily for two reasons: 1) Finals week, and 2) immediate vacation to Mexico. I really needed to get away for a little while and just forget about everything and freeze time. But now that I am feeling pumped up again, I’m ready to write more articles and take more questions about religion that you guys may have.
How’s your guys’s/girls’s summer break (or almost summer break?) so far? I hope you guys have the opportunity to relax.
More articles and Buddha Vocab coming up soon!
Gassho,
Daniel
All the best! by Andy Qiang..Share Moments, Share Life.. on Flickr.
water poetry in Temple of Heaven by jaletta on Flickr.
Faceless Bodhisattva.
Bodhichitta within.
Buddhanature in mind.
Zen is very simple. Dishwashing time, just wash dishes; sitting time, just sit; driving time, just drive; talking time, just talk; walking time, just walk. That’s all. Not special. But that is very difficult. That is absolutes thinking. When you’re doing something, just do it. No opposites. No subject, no object. No inside, no outside. Outside and inside become one. That’s called absolutes.
It’s easy to talk about “When you’re doing something, just do it,” but action is very difficult. Sitting: thinking, thinking, thinking. Chanting: also thinking, thinking. Bowing time: not so much, but some thinking, thinking, checking, checking mind appear. Then you have a problem.
But don’t hold. Thinking is OK. Checking is OK. Only holding is a problem. Don’t hold. Feeling coming, going, OK. Don’t hold. If your mind is not holding anything, it is clear like space. Clear like space means that sometimes clouds come, sometimes rain or lightning or airplane comes, or even a missile blows up, BOOM! World explodes, but the air is never broken. This space is never broken.
— Seung Sahn (via nephilnine)
“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
- Bruce Lee
(via musashi-no-kami)
