The essence of Buddhist teaching is "when you hear just hear, and when you smell, just smell, and when you see, just see, and when you taste, just taste." Be present to the present moment. This is the same as avoiding grasping and aversion. Whatever comes, comes and whatever goes, goes. There is no self there holding on to whatever it might be. This is liberating. It is not about self-improvement. It is simply enjoying the journey. Enjoying the mystery of life without having to be preoccupied with working it out; where it's going, how I can control it's destiny. It's just moment to moment fullness in life. There is a place for reflection. Reflection is part of many spiritual traditions. The Catholic tradition of contemplative prayer is one of reflection. It's okay if it's not a preoccupied self-reflection but a reflection on the big picture with a sense of wonder and enjoying what it looks like.
The Ordinary Mind Zen School Sydney podcast: Dharma talks given by Geoff Dawson.
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“An Open Spacious Response To Life.”
Charlotte Joko Beck
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Wise human beings, who ‘see things as they are’, renounce attachment and clinging, transform the energy of desire into awareness and understanding, and eventually transcend the conditioned realm of form becoming.
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