Aligning With Gravity

Grounded Reality

“You exist as an idea in your mind.”

– Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Gravity is Real

No “Belief” is Required

You Know the Truth by the Way it Feels

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True Self Discovery

A “journey of self-discovery” refers to an internal pilgrimage, whereby a person considers and attempts to determine how they feel, about spiritual issues, or priorities, rather than following the “opinions” of family, friends, neighborhood, guru, nation, or peer pressure. The topic of self-discovery has been associated with Zen.

“Do not ask me where I am going.

I am traveling in this limitless world, where every step I take is my home.”

°— Dōgen —°

Feel Your Way into Being

“The present moment is a powerful goddess.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your Natural State

Reality is Always Already the Case

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it.”

– Dōgen Zenji, Founder of Soto Zen

Reality is Not What You Think

Dōgen is pointing us away from grasping and collecting ideas, toward the simple inward turn where awareness illuminates itself. When that turning is sincere, the tight knot of “self” contracted, identity based “me” loosens. Identification with body and mind fall away and what remains is our natural presence: ordinary, luminous, and eternal.

“In this silence there is a strange warmth, a soft light in the heart that is not of thought. It is not an idea of God, nor a vision; it is simply being, without name.”

~ J. Krishnamurti

“Words are the fog one has to see through.”

– Zen Expression

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