Zengriff-v2 - Zengriff

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."

Eckhart Tolle

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The basic problem is that one believes that everything is real, and thus everything is treated as such.

- Kalu Rinpoche

Japanese Imperial Palace photos: Sam Abell

Remember feelings pass. Even the most intense and disturbing emotions pass.

I for one am grateful that our brains can forget.

"The practitioner should be at peace within. Do not seek tranquility outside. There is nothing that can be taken away from a person who is at peace within. " Buddha (Sutta Nipata 919)

Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

Funda-in ‘芬陀院’ Kyoto, Japan.