Empty mind, Peaceful being

The shagreen leather is shrinking
“There is no cold place in a boiling cauldron.
Only the one who can stand on a whirlwind in the emptiness will be able to dance and laugh. All the rest will be dying one by one. They have already started.
The shagreen leather is shrinking.”
From The Zen Tradition

"Cauldron – large metal cooking pot for open fire cooking, a situation characterized by instability & strong emotions"


“When the waves are choppy it is difficult for the moon to appear,
Though the room is wide, the lamp can fill it with light,
I extort you to clear your mind vessel
Don’t spill the sweet dew sauce”
From The Zen Tradition

“The snake flees from the man; the man flees from the snake,
and the path remains empty. Thus does enmity waste opportunity?”
Translation of an Oromo tribe (Ethiopia / Kenya) proverb

“The bitter heart devours its owner”
Tswana saying

“For only when one is empty can one hope to reach out further, only when one is not currently experiencing anything can one hope to experience something different? Only when one is not worrying about this and the other can there be receptiveness to what is inside one…to say you have divinity inside of you, you are capable of being eternally good, eternally loving, and eternally happy. After all did he not say I have created you in my own image, whatever I have done I promise you, you can do more,”
Neo Kgwatalala