From R.H. Blyth: “The truth is like health or the air we breathe; we don’t realize it when we have it, it seems so common and tasteless.”
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Quote of the day 04/15/25
From Rikeiho: Desiring to possess the moon, A monk one ladled it out with the water into a vessel, But, reaching the temple with it, found That when he poured the water out, the moon was gone.
Quote of the day 04/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Flow like the river, be firm as the rocks, pliant as the willow, eternal as the sky, transitory as the dew-drops, for man is all these, and more.”
Quote of the day 04/13/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The attitude of Zen is, Follow the Self, and all these things, goodness, purity, compassion, will be added unto you. That is, do not attach yourself even to goodness, to ideals, to Zen itself.”
Quote of the day 04/12/15
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!”
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 04/07/25
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.”
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