NOTAS: Jizo Bodhisattva Guardian of Children, Travelers, and Other Voyagers

 

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“Our culture is fixated on youth. We neglect our elders like things stored in the attic and dread our own aging as a curse.”

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“If we enter spiritual practice hoping to know ourselves completely, then our proper attitude toward all creation is one of curiosity and ultimately of communion.”

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“investigate the mind and its creation, the world”

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“The mind’s attention is energy.”

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“Wherever the mind is directed, energy flows.”

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“The bodhisattva called Jizo in Japan and America is known by different names in other countries. In India he is Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva, in China Ti-tsang Pusa, in Korea Ji-jang Bosal, in Tibet Sati-snin-po.”

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Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva

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NOTAS: Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

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“These pathologies of imbalance are driven by many complex factors in society itself. Sadly, they have resulted in cultural norms that support particular brands of delusion, obsession, and endless preoccupation with how much the body weighs.”

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“It doesn’t take much in the way of attention to realize that much of our lives are caught up in a preoccupation with the past and future at the expense of the present moment, the only time any of us ever have to nurture ourselves, to see, to learn, to grow, to change, to heal, to express our feelings, to love, and above all to live.”

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“If we are always on the way to someplace else, to some better now, when we will be thinner, or happier, or more accomplished, or whatever it is, then we can never be in wise relationship with this moment and love ourselves as we actually are.”

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“The problem is not in our food. Food is just food. It is neither good nor bad.”

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“The source of the problem lies in the thinking mind and the feeling heart.”

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“Mindfulness is the perfect tool for the delicate operation of laying open the inner workings of these two most essential organs.”

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“Mindfulness is awareness without judgment or criticism.”

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NOTAS: How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

 

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“As you filled in all the brown areas, then the greens and the blues, a pleasing picture begins to emerge. Mindfulness practice is like that.”

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“I am a meditation teacher, and I live at a Zen monastery in Oregon. I’m also a pediatrician, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother, so I understand well how stressful and challenging daily life can become.”

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“You open the car door, search for your keys, back carefully out of the driveway, and . . . you pull into the parking garage at work. Wait a minute! What happened to twenty miles and forty minutes between house and job?”

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“Is that bad? It’s not bad in the sense of something you should feel ashamed or guilty about. If you are able to drive to work on autopilot for years without having an accident, that’s pretty skillful! We could say that it’s sad, though, because when we spend a lot of time with our body doing one thing while our mind is on vacation somewhere else, it means that we aren’t really present for much of our life.”

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“We all try over-the-counter remedies—food, drugs, sex, overwork, alcohol, movies, shopping, gambling—to relieve the pain of ordinary life as a human being.”

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