From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, as in the Shinjinmei, all forms of dualism, right and wrong, good and bad, gain and loss – get rid of them all, forget them!”
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Quote of the day 04/11/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What Zen wishes us to do is let go of the ordinary goodness of philanthropy and duty, and the badness of tyranny and cruelty, and live always in the Goodness, dissolved in it, sublimed in it.”
Quote of the day 04/10/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Everything is bathed in love like the ether. The world is like a spider’s web; touch one part and the whole quivers.”
Quote of the day 04/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Though the self, the selfish self, must disappear, emotion remains and this emotion is love.”
Quote of the day 04/08/25
From John Milton: “Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine.”
Quote of the day 04/07/25
From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
Quote of the day 04/06/25
From the Rokusodankyo: “At every moment, in every place, if we are free from foolish desires and act wisely, we have Wisdom (Paradise). One foolish thought, and Paradise is lost; one wise thought and salvation is again ours.”
Quote of the day 04/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
Quote of the day 04/04/25
From William Wordsworth: “Let nature be your teacher.”
Quote of the day 04/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We are to ask fervently, to seek passionately, to knock madly – but it must be for nothing. When our self is all asked, sought, knocked away, everything is given, found, opened.”
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