From Zhuangzi: “During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.”
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Quote of the day 07/23/24
From Zhuangzi: There was an old and crooked oak tree by the village shrine, every branch twisted and gnarled. The tree was large enough to shade several thousand oxen and was a hundred spans around. It towered above the hilltops with its lowest branches eighty feet from the ground. More than ten of its branchesContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/23/24”
Quote of the day 07/20/24
From Zhuangzi: “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where canContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/20/24”
Quote of the day 07/10/24
From Nagarjuna: “The whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. From factors which are empty, empty factors originate. Those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. There is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed.Continue reading “Quote of the day 07/10/24”
Quote of the day 07/02/24
From Zhuangzi: “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether IContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/02/24”
Quote of the day 07/01/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”
Quote of the day 06/30/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wetContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/30/24”
Quote of the day 06/29/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of things. It can have no cause to favor certain enterprises over others. The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.”
Quote of the day 06/28/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”
Quote of the day 06/27/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
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