From Nagarjuna: “Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions, in aggregations of many things, or in individual things. Therefore, all entities are empty.”
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Quote of the day 07/11/24
From Nagarjuna: “With all its many risks, this life enduresNo more than windblown bubbles in a stream.How marvelous to breathe in and out again,To fall asleep and then awake refreshed.”
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 07/09/24
From Nagarjuna: “Since all is empty, all is possible.”
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 07/07/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Quote of the day 07/06/24
From William Shakespeare: “Jesters do oft prove prophets.”
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 07/04/24
From Zhuangzi: “You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless.”
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.”
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