As life gets a bit stressful, two great quotes have appeared in my aggregator.
James, ‘The Buddhist Blogger’ quotes Dainin Katagiri Roshi: The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life,but to face it — exactly and completely. .
Sujatin passes on this quote:
‘This is not me
This is not mine
This is not myself’
She cites ‘the Non-Self teaching’ as the source, but I’m not yet well-versed enough to know exactly what this is. It sounds related to the Heart Sutra, which I found on a CD in a TIbetan Buddhist shop just outside Tsinghua University’s East Gate. The CD has the Heart Sutra chanted twice – first in what could be Tibetan, Sanskrit or Pali, (I think Sanskrit; it sounds more ‘Indian’ than Tibetan) and then in Mandarin. I tend to play it in the mornings as I’m getting ready for the day, and it’s very calming!
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