From Chomei: “The triple world is but one Mind. Outside the Mind there is no other reality; Mind, Buddha, all Sentient Creatures, – these three are not different things.”
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Quote of the day 02/05/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Quote of the day 02/04/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.”
Quote of the day 02/03/25
From Epictetus: “Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.”
Quote of the day 02/02/25
From Emerson: “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
Quote of the day 02/01/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.”
Quote of the day 01/31/25
From Keats: “A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence-because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow comes before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.”
Quote of the day 01/30/25
From William Blake: “The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
Quote of the day 01/29/25
From M. Duthuit: “Draw bamboos for ten years, become a bamboo, then forget all about bamboos when you are drawing.”
Quote of the day 01/28/25
From Unmon: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.”