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.”
Tag Archives: eastern philosophy
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.”
Quote of the day 01/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: ‘These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.”
Quote of the day 01/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.”
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