From the Shinjinmei: “The Way is not difficult; only there must be no wanting or not wanting.”
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Quote of the day 04/27/25
From Taliessin: “The wind without flesh, without bone, without veins, without feet, is strong; the wind has no wants, but the sea whitens when he comes out of nothing.”
Quote of the day 04/07/25
From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
Quote of the day 04/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We are to ask fervently, to seek passionately, to knock madly – but it must be for nothing. When our self is all asked, sought, knocked away, everything is given, found, opened.”
Quote of the day 04/02/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…poetry, like religion, must be ascetic, must have the element of poverty in it.”
Quote of the day 04/01/25
From Lewis Carrol: “‘Tut, tut, child!’ said the Duchess. ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.’”
Quote of the day 03/30/25
From Basho: “Ah, hanging bridge! Ivy-ropes Entwine existence!”
Quote of the day 03/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zeno of Eleanor showed that things cannot move, a moving arrow is an illusion, Achilles can never overtake the tortoise. But here again life solves the problem by living. We come into existence and go out of it, things move, things overtake other things.”
Quote of the day 03/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Sometimes the truth slides so gently into our minds that we are hardly aware of it.”
Quote of the day 03/15/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The paradox is itself an example of what it teaches. The meaning escapes the words. Very well then, instead of further and further explanations, floundering farther and farther from Reality, let us scorn truth, turn our backs on logic, defy consistency, – and behold, the intangible is grasped, the unsayable is said.”
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