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”
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Quote of the day 07/08/24
From Nagarjuna: “All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
Quote of the day 07/05/24
From Zhuangzi: “A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of yourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/05/24”
Quote of the day 07/03/24
From Zhuangzi: “The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
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 06/06/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “Liberation is the ability to go from the world of signs to the world of true nature.”
Quote of the day 05/21/24
From Alan Watts: “The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will be astounded at his capacity to feel in unsuspected and unpredictable ways.”
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.”
Quote of the day 02/21/24
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
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