From the Dhammapada: “The fool who knows his foolishness is wise at any rate so far. But the fool who thinks himself wise, he is a fool indeed.”
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Quote of the day 06/28/25
From Jataka: “Now, therefore, it behooves me to examine into my faults; and if I find anything wrong in me, to put it away, and practice virtue only.”
Quote of the day 06/22/25
From the Story of Virudhaka: “Those who search after truth should have a heart full of sympathy.”
Quote of the day 06/15/25
From the Udanavarga: “Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.”
Quote of the day 05/31/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, Look within! Wordsworth says, Look without! but there is no more difference here than in the case of Self-Power and Other-Power. Self-Power is Other-Power, because Self is Other. Looking at the microcosm is looking at the macrocosm, for one without the other is meaningless.”
Quote of the day 05/27/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
Quote of the day 05/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What we have to do is to find some larger truth that will include and reconcile the two apparently opposing and contradictory lesser truths.”
Quote of the day 05/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “This is the teaching of Zen; that everything, even ourselves, had its lesson taught it when first made, that is, when it came into existence, and that to know what to do we must therefore ‘Enquire within.’”
Quote of the day 05/15/25
From Roshi: “He who studies gains something every day: he who follows the Way loses something every day.”
Quote of the day 04/20/25
From William Wordsworth: “and we shall findA pleasure in the dimness of the stars.”