From R.H. Blyth: “Is it a fact, then, that those who have come to a fundamental realisation of the truth of Zen, feel a love for all fring creatures, beautiful and ugly, charming and disgusting? The answer will be that, though Zen gives the mind a general spring-cleaning, cobwebs and dust still lurk in manyContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/28/25”
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Quote of the day 05/27/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
Quote of the day 05/26/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.”
Quote of the day 05/25/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
Quote of the day 05/24/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
Quote of the day 05/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that love of all living creatures which springs up naturally in our hearts, unless thwarted by instruction, custom, or self-love, is no more and no less than our Buddha-nature manifesting itself. Further, love, like knight errantry, equalizes all things, and this equality of all things, the absolute worth andContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/23/25”
Quote of the day 05/22/25
From R.H. Blyth: “This is the true attitude of religion, of Zen, of poetry, towards everything, and especially towards animals: to ask nothing from them, to give them all the freedom and happiness consistent with our own existence.”
Quote of the day 05/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What we have to do is to find some larger truth that will include and reconcile the two apparently opposing and contradictory lesser truths.”
Quote of the day 05/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “This is the teaching of Zen; that everything, even ourselves, had its lesson taught it when first made, that is, when it came into existence, and that to know what to do we must therefore ‘Enquire within.’”
Quote of the day 05/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Does not the sun scorch to death, and floods drown the good and bad with equal lack of discrimination? Do not the lilies of the field choke one another to death in their wild struggle for existence? This is true enough, but after all, not so staggering as it appears. In ZenContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/19/25”
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