August « 2011 « sarahnicholson

RETURNING TO THE ROOT

Be completely empty.

Be perfectly serene.

The ten thousand things arise together;

in their arising is their return.

Now they flower,

and flowering

sink homeward,

returning to the root.

The return to the root is peace.

Peace: to accept what must be,

to know what endures.

In that knowledge is wisdom.

Without it, ruin, [...]

Pilgrimage

My last post was about walking, so it is probably not so surprising that I have been remembering my experience on the Dharma Yatra in southern France.

It’s a silent group walk through the countryside with Dharma teachings at night and the focus on walking mediation “in the beauty and simplicity of Nature, being together [...]

A lost blog

I found the blog post below in my email drafts. I have no idea why I didn’t post it at the time, twelve months ago, but its sentiments are deeply consonant with the current events of my life.

As I was walking home through the park one afternoon last week I became aware of myself [...]