Quote of the day 05/19/25

From R.H. Blyth:

“Does not the sun scorch to death, and floods drown the good and bad with equal lack of discrimination? Do not the lilies of the field choke one another to death in their wild struggle for existence? This is true enough, but after all, not so staggering as it appears. In Zen this double aspect of life is expressed under the image of a sword, the sword that kills and the sword that makes alive. Nature is “red in tooth and claw,” but so are the beneficient hands of the surgeon.”