From R.H. Blyth: “…poetry, like religion, must be ascetic, must have the element of poverty in it.”
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Quote of the day 02/01/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.”
Quote of the day 01/26/25
From Nagarjuna: “Just as it is knownThat an image of one’s face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of “I” existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe “I” does not at all exist as its own reality.”
Quote of the day 01/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.”
Quote of the day 01/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them—these sticks, stones, feathers, shells—there is no Deity.”
Quote of the day 01/15/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”
Quote of the day 01/10/25
From the Diamond Sutra: “As a lamp, a cataract, a shooting star,an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble,a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning:view all created things like this.”
Quote of the day 07/15/24
From the Dalai Lama: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Quote of the day 06/02/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.”
Quote of the day 02/10/24
From Meister Eckhart: “For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.”
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