Spirituality means waking up.  Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep.  They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep, without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing we call human existence. (Anthony de Mello, Awareness, 1990, p. 5) When the guru sat down to worship each evening the ashram cat would get in the way and distract the worship

In a Zen monastery, the monks gathered every evening for meditation. There was a cat that wandered into the hall and distracted the monks during practice. The master, seeing the disturbance repeated over time, ordered that the cat be tied to a tree outside the meditation hall during the evening sitting. For years, this was done without question. The bell would ring, the monks would prepare the hall, and someone would go and tie the cat to the tree. Eventually, the master died

A monk once approached the Buddha and asked, “How do I know when I am seeing clearly?” The Buddha picked up a lute that was resting nearby and plucked one of its strings. The sound was dull and flat. He loosened the string further and plucked it again. This time, no sound emerged at all. Then he tightened the string too much and plucked once more. The sound was sharp, brittle, and almost painful. Only when the string was tuned just right did the lute produce music. The Buddha

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We are the Guardians of Humanity jksdgaiu bnshshysb nskoa kaksahc kjfabf;osdi ndisk ndidhllonjddushs bididnp dnhdjdjdud9 sbsios nbhi nsiis nsgefwuq

We are the Guardians of Humanity jksdgaiu bnshshysb nskoa kaksahc kjfabf;osdi ndisk ndidhllonjddushs bididnp dnhdjdjdud9 sbsios nbhi nsiis nsgefwuq

Meditation is good for health. water is the life and the earth is my destiny klasfhaif nsbshssiks nsjsjks hsoshs isuss isgs sissg siss ss ssissos sosyddod distwe iwfwf oweewt ifuswa ieuw iefuwe efiwef wefiwefwef

A traveller once arrived at a monastery at dusk and asked the monk at the gate where he might see the moon he had come so far to find. The monk led him behind the buildings to a small pond and gestured toward the water. The traveller leaned forward. The surface was unsettled. Leaves drifted. Insects skimmed across it. His own face broke the reflection. He frowned and asked why the moon was not there.The monk did not answer. He sat down beside the pond.The traveller waited for

I want to begin somewhere ordinary, because that is where practice reveals itself most honestly. Not in retreat halls, not in carefully protected silences, not in the language we use with one another when we already agree. It begins when a conversation could easily turn sharp and does not. When a familiar voice carries a view we do not share and something in us stays present long enough to listen. When we notice the urge to correct, to explain, to win, and we do not act on it