watching it rise

From Mipham, What about me?:

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara’s attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, “A piece of truth.” “Doesn’t this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?” his attendants asked. “No,” Mara replied. “Right after this they usually make a belief out of it.”
– Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield

It’s not the noise disturbing your meditation, it’s you who is disturbing the noise.
– Ajahn Chah

What we call normal life is the socially acceptable level of greed, hate, and delusion which is operating at the moment.– Rev. Master Eko