From Alan Watts: “Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present
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Quote of the day 05/13/24
From Alan Watts: “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
Quote of the day 05/12/24
From Alan Watts: “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Quote of the day 05/05/24
From Dogen: “Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.”
Quote of the day 05/04/24
From Kurt Vonnegut: “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Waiting
I find there to be a kind of liberty in waiting. To be imprisoned in time. Finally an excuse for inaction.
Quote of the day 05/03/24
From Dogen: “So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions.”
Quote of the day 04/30/24
From Dogen: “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Quote of the day 04/29/24
From Dogen: “As long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.”
Quote of the day 04/28/24
From Dogen: “If there were fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.”
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