If we see things as they are, then we do not have to interpret or analyze them further; we do not need to try to understand things by imposing spiritual experience or philosophical ideas upon them. As a famous zen master said: ‘When I eat, I eat; when I sleep, I sleep.’ Just do what you do, completely, fully. To do so is to be a rishi, an honest, truthful person, a straightforward person who never distringuishes between this and that. He does things literally, directly, as they are.
– Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
The older I get the more I realize how much fuller and enjoyable life is when I relax and just live it. Experience life, don’t conceptualize it.
January 10, 2009, 12:00am Link
