Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Bodian, Stephan (2012-07-19), Meditation For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, Retrieved on 2013-09-10Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: body Memes
10 SEP 2013
Think of Everything as Already Broken
In his book Thoughts without a Thinker, psychiatrist Mark Epstein recounts this teaching by the Thai meditation master Achaan Chah. “You see this goblet?” Achaan Chah asks. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf, and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to ...A liberating perspective.