Pure Mountain Tao

True perception only occurs when the mind is silent and not analyzing, judging, or babbling. That moment of bliss, moment of experience, is the moment of truth. What occurs afterward is tainted and tinted with opinion. For the moment to remain pure, we must remain above the realm of thinking.

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Walking is Zen,
Sitting, too, is Zen.
If I speak or am silent,
Tarry or hasten:
Everything, in its true nature,
Is stillness.

- Shodoka

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Today I pray for peace

I pray for the disturbed to find it

The agitated to see it

The persecuted to be blessed with it

May those who suffer

All those with great pain

Feel peace overcome them

Like a cool waterfall

Washing away their hurt and disharmony