2024: Index R

 Ram Dass, Baba 

"The quieter you become the more you can hear."

Rilke, Rainer Maria

"A billion stars go spinning through the night,

blazing above your head.

But in you is the present that will be,

when the stars are dead."

Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku

"Time is very precious.  Do not wait until you are dying to understand your spiritual nature.  If you do it now, you will discover resources of kindness and compassion you didn't know you had.  It is from this mind of intrinsic wisdom and compassion that you can truly benefit others ... Moment by moment, we should look at life as if it were a dream unfolding ... In this relaxed, more open state of being, we have the opportunity to gain the infallible means of dying well, which is recognition of our absolute nature."

Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse

"At present, the outer universe -- earth, stones, mountains, rocks, and cliffs -- seem to the perception of our senses to be permanent and stable, like the house built of reinforced concrete which we think will last for generations.  In fact, there is nothing solid to it at all; it is nothing but a city of dreams."

"Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being."  (03/18/2023)

Rinzai

"The truly religious man has nothing to do but go on with his life as he finds it in the various circumstances of this worldly existence.  He rises quietly in the morning, puts on his dress and goes out to his work.  When he wants to walk, he walks; when he wants to sit, he sits. He has no hankering after Buddhahood ... How is this possible?" (07/07/06)

Robertson, Frederick William

"Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done.  Life is an action, not a thought."  (06/24/2023)

Rumi

"There is a voice that doesn't use words.  Listen."  (01/14/2023)

Ruskin, John

"There is no wealth but life."