Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

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We are taking a brief rest … so there is no newsletter this week – normally it would have published on Wed, April 12th. Meantime, if you are interested, here’s our most recent newsletter, titled : Sanbo Zen, Simplicity of What Is, Nonduality & More … and here’s our newsletter archives. Of course, we continue to publish blog and video posts.

And … here’s a meditation by Loy Ching Yuen (an accomplished Taoist master and a student of T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Chi Kung) to deepen the ongoing exploration of our true nature … the wisdom within … the ever present stillness!

To know Tao
Meditate
And still the mind.

still the mind

Knowledge comes with perseverance.

The Way is neither full nor empty;
A modest and quiet nature understands this.

The empty vessel, the uncarved block;
Nothing is more mysterious.

When enlightenment arrives
Don’t talk too much about it;

Just live it in your own way.

enlightenment no talk

With humility and depth, rewards come naturally.

The fragrance of blossoms soon passes;
The ripeness of fruit is gone in a twinkling.

Our time in this world is so short,
Better to avoid regret;
Miss no opportunity to savor the ineffable.

Like a golden beacon signaling on a moonless night,
Tao guides our passage through this transitory realm.

In moments of darkness and pain
Remember all is cyclical.

Sit quietly behind your wooden door:
Spring will come again.

  ~  Meditation by Loy Ching Yuen

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~ Ovid

 


Paramahansa Yogananda & Ovid’s Quotes from : Wisdom Commons – Balance.
Meditation by Loy Ching Yuen from : Wisdom Commons – Serenity.

Images (edited) : All are CC BY 2.0 1) Tuolumne Meadows Sunset,by Steve Dunleavy from Lake Tahoe, NV, United States, [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons, 2) untitled by eflon, 3 & Featured) 293040 by Peter Pham.

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