Deep kindness

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran

Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Review and summary | Tom Butler-Bowdon

Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Review and summary | Tom Butler-Bowdon:

"Yet zazen practice requires discipline. Repetition, constancy, sameness is the way of Zen. Not looking for excitement or great joys, which imply a loss of our true nature, but just seeing the 'is-ness' and beauty of each moment. Suzuki looks to the humble frog to demonstrate Zen practice. Frogs sit, without thinking they are anything special, yet their sitting does not take anything away from their identity. They are clearly still a frog. The author talks of the purity of practice. He does not mean wanting to make ourselves pure, turning something bad into good, but just to see things as they are - their 'quality'."

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Purity is 'Things as they are'

Tonight, Warren offered this quote from Shunryu Suzuki:

Purity is 'Things as they are'.

As in ... there is no perfect action.  

Or this:  Understanding purity as 'things as they are' is an expression  of compassion... accepting what is, accepting that I may have 'missed the mark', or said differently, I have 'imperfect understanding' at a given moment.