From the Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king: “All men should cultivate a fixed and firm determination, and vow that what they once undertake they will never give up.”
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Quote of the day 06/12/25
From Katha Sarit Sagara: “Why should we cling to this perishable body? In the eye of the wise, the only thing it is good for is to benefit one’s fellow-creatures.”
Quote of the day 06/10/25
From R.H. Blyth: “In conclusion, let us say that Shakespeare had a religion, a religion which could ask and answer the question which Macduff asked, when his wife and children were all murdered at one fell swoop: ‘Did heaven look on, And would not take their part?’ What is the answer to the question? ItContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/10/25”
Quote of the day 06/08/25
From R.H. Blyth: “In both good and evil there is Goodness, if only men can forget their praising and blaming and see it as it flows, in its activity.”
Quote of the day 05/29/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The outside of our mind remains full of fears, prejudices and cravings, yet not the same as before, because deep down inside there is the consciousness that All is Good without comparison or difference. Or to put it in another way, just as the hard horny hands of the young farmer doContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/29/25”
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 05/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Does not the sun scorch to death, and floods drown the good and bad with equal lack of discrimination? Do not the lilies of the field choke one another to death in their wild struggle for existence? This is true enough, but after all, not so staggering as it appears. In ZenContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/19/25”
Quote of the day 05/18/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The willow bends for me, gives her pliancy to me. I yield my heart to the willow, I give up my life to it. The willow and I are one. There is no giving and receiving at all. Life appears there, in the form of a willow, here, in the form ofContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/18/25”
Quote of the day 05/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The important but usually overlooked part of Christ’s short sermon, is the words ‘how they grow.’ The point is not the beauty of the flower, not the beauty of a Bach fugue but, how it grows. How does it grow? Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Bach attempted the task of explaining howContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/17/25”
Quote of the day 05/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…what Roshi is urging us to lose is such things as self-respect, our immortal souls, our wish to live, our pleasure in life, and so on. Of course, we shall get them all back again, but changed out of all recognition.”
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