Watermoon Refuge https://watermoonrefuge.org A place for peace Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:06:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Still Water https://watermoonrefuge.org/still-water/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:06:46 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=661 Only in still water do we see the depth of our reflection.

 –  anon

]]> Dogen https://watermoonrefuge.org/dogen/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:58:05 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=658 If you want to understand the whole universe, study a single leaf.

–       Dogen

]]> Ghandi https://watermoonrefuge.org/ghandi/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=655 In matters of conscience,

the law of majority has no place.

–      Mahatma Ghandi

]]> Han Shan https://watermoonrefuge.org/han-shan-2/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:47:52 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=652 Green water in the stream in the pass,

white water risen from the clear-welling spring…

Han Shan’s moon’s a flower, white as well…

So the darkest secret, the spirit by itself illuminates:

gaze into the emptiness: to the ends of the earth…

You’re alone, with all within.

– Han Shan

]]> Let Your Mind Wander https://watermoonrefuge.org/let-your-mind-wander/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:55:27 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=649 Let your mind wander in the pure and simple.

Be one with the infinite. Allow all things to take

their course. Leave no room for selfishness

and the Empire will be in order.

– Chuang-tzu

]]> Nisargadatta https://watermoonrefuge.org/nisargadatta-2/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:31:15 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=646 Society will not change by compulsion. It requires a change of heart.

Understand that nothing is your own, that all belongs to all.

–   Nisargadatta

]]> Real Nature https://watermoonrefuge.org/real-nature-2/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:58:35 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=643 In your real nature, which is oneness,

no conflict is possible.

–   Jean Klein

]]> Layman P’ang https://watermoonrefuge.org/layman-pang/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:39:53 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=640 My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I’m in total

harmony with them. I don’t hold on to anything,

don’t reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict.

Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest

thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual

activity:drawing water and carrying wood.

–       Layman P’ang

]]> Rengetsu https://watermoonrefuge.org/rengetsu-3/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:36:20 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=636 Yesterday,

I shattered the ice

To draw water –

No matter, this morning

Frozen just as solid.

–       Rengetsu

]]> Light https://watermoonrefuge.org/light/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:29:55 +0000 https://watermoonrefuge.org/?p=633 If everything around you seems dark, look again.

You may be the light.

–    Rumi

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