We are trying to live the life outside ourselves, rather than the life we already have.
John Aske
Views and Opinions by John Aske
In not-knowing, there is room for everything: the born and the unborn.
Kindness by John Aske
Kindness awakens your latent ability to be and commune with the world.
Intimacy and the Buddha’s Smile, by John Aske
But don’t grasp at the smile — or the flower — or even the words, and most of us do, because we love to attach ourselves to things and meanings, and it’s not about things or meanings.
Wu Wei, You Can’t do it Wrong by John Aske
We just have to keep practising and realising that every moment is precious, and so are we. Not wonderful perhaps, but precious, and human, and as Maezumi Roshi said, ‘Living the unsurpassed life.’
Regular Everything, by John Aske
How often, acting upon our need for comfort and security, do we sacrifice our freedom and happiness?
Purpose and the Search for Happiness, by John Aske
The parallels with the story of the young Prince Siddhartha 2500 years earlier are clear. As childhood with its certainties (if we are lucky) and its securities, moves into adolescence and then maturity, we are all confronted with the opportunity of opening up to the world (and ourselves) and exploring it, or turning away from it and trying to restore the gilded cage we once lived in…
Being Alone by John Aske
‘Other people may offer a solution to our problems, but it is usually a solution to their problems, to something a bit different, and if it helps us, it is usually by luck.’
