- D.T. Suzuki
This is my Buddhist Thought of the Day from yesterday. I post it here because it emphasizes the changes that I’ve tried to make in my life recently: weight loss, returning to creativity in writing, and music… but especially my desire to explore visual medium. I’ve always wanted to draw… to create something lasting with my own two hands… something I didn’t have to tap out on the keys of a keyboard. This reminds me that change can’t be forced. How many times have I “tried” to lose weight, but my heart wasn’t in it… my “being” wasn’t there, and thus, I failed. I am also struck by the concluding statement: “… the result of your sitting is also already there.” Sometimes our business, our vain attempts to fill the nothingness with meaningless action is not as powerful as stillness. Perhaps, he reminds us that we should choose our actions as well as our inaction more carefully, because they, too, make up our being.
