From Thích Nhất Hạnh: “The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”
Tag Archives: eastern philosophy
Quote of the day 02/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Man is born deaf, that is, not understanding the speech of others, so that he may follow his instincts and not be confused by words.”
Quote of the day 02/08/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.”
Quote of the day 02/07/25
From Unmon: “If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit; but whatever you do, don’t wabble.”
Quote of the day 02/06/25
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.”
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.”
Quote of the day 01/27/25
From Nagarjuna: “I am not, I will not be.I have not, I will not have.This frightens all children,And kills fear in the wise.”
Quote of the day 01/26/25
From Nagarjuna: “Just as it is knownThat an image of one’s face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of “I” existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe “I” does not at all exist as its own reality.”
Quote of the day 01/22/25
From R.H. Blyth: “A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.”
