From Ryokan: You say my poems are poetry? They are not. Yet if you understand they are not,- Then you see the poetry of them!
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Quote of the day 05/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Roshi, speaking of the man who follows the Way, says, ‘He is like a child alone, careless, unattached, devoid of ambition.’”
Quote of the day 05/08/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Dying for money-it is done every day; but to die from a kind of horror at the abundance of good things, what is the meaning of it? It lies, I think, in the fact that poverty means closeness to nature.”
Quote of the day 05/07/25
From Mencius: “The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.”
Quote of the day 05/06/25
From R.H. Blyth: “However long or short your life is, it is a complete one. Whether the wind comes from the heat of the sun or the coolness of the moon, it is the wind; to fill every moment of a life with living, that is to be like the lily, the plant and flowerContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/06/25”
Quote of the day 05/05/25
From Hakuin: “We see all phenomena as eternal realities, yet as phenomena; whether we go or whether we return, for us there is no movement.”
Quote of the day 05/05/25
From Hakuin: “We see all phenomena as eternal realities, yet as phenomena; whether we go or whether we return, for us there is no movement.”
Quote of the day 05/04/25
From Walt Whitman: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Quote of the day 05/03/25
From Matthew Arnold: We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still; In mystery our soul abides.
Quote of the day 05/02/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The meaning, the object of our life, is the state of being unborn, age-less, immortal, which is our real nature and the nature of all things.”
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