Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to reestablish dharma.
#Gita
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need.
Every misfortune,
every red light or traffic jam,
every obnoxious supervisor or employee,
every illness or loss,
every moment of joy or depression,
every addiction,
every breath.
Every moment is the guru.
― Charlotte Joko Beck
I struggle because instead of just doing what needs to be done, I fight the underlying fear; I try to unlock the door.
Instead of obsessing about the locked door, we need to be going about our lives, which means cleaning up the house,going to work, whatever.
-Charlotte Joko Beck
"Being in harmony means you’re experiencing your self as an integral part of life instead of as someone who is opposing a piece of life. When you experience harmony, you know it." - Charlotte Joko Beck
How do you know if your practice is real? By one thing only: more and more, we just see wonder. What is wonder? I don’t know! We can’t know such things through thinking. But we always know it when it is there.
Charlotte Joko Beck
"It doesn’t matter what the contents of the moment are; each moment is absolute. That’s all there is, and all there ever will be. If we could totally pay attention, we would never be upset." — Charlotte Joko Beck #DailyDharma
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
-- Charlotte Joko Beck
"There is nothing other than this present moment; there is no past, there is no future; there is nothing but this. So when we don't pay attention to each little this, we miss the whole thing." ~ Charlotte Joko Beck
#mindfulness