From R.H. Blyth: “The scales are weighted, though ever so lightly, on the side of goodness and truth. Were this not so, how could we say, ‘Follow nature,’ ‘Know thyself’? Zen would become simply a participation in the Universal Suicide.”
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Quote of the day 06/06/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The absolute value of things is infinite; our minds, which change according to our circumstances, that is, our necessities, decide that things are vile or precious.”
Quote of the day 06/04/25
From R.H. Blyth: “If only we can realise that we are born fools, if only we can attain to this state of absolute foolishness, where everything is good, we shall be like Sôshi’s drunkard, who when he falls out of a cart, though he injures himself, is not killed, because he is not thinking ofContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/04/25”
Quote of the day 06/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We do zazen, not to get anything, but to throw away all we have and to throw away even the idea that we are throwing something away. ‘A still-soliciting eye.’ This is the precise opposite of Wordsworth’s ‘a quiet eye’; it is the disease of the mind, to be always, incessantly, evenContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/03/25”
Quote of the day 06/02/2025
William Wordsworth on poetry: “It’s object is truth … carried alive into the heart by passion: truth which is its own testimony.”
Quote of the day 06/01/25
From R.H. Blyth: “I have already given my interpretation of what are called figures of speech and will now give a definition of imagination as the faculty was exercised by Wordsworth himself. It is the power by which we become so united, or better, by which we realise our original unity with persons, things, situations,Continue reading “Quote of the day 06/01/25”
Quote of the day 05/31/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, Look within! Wordsworth says, Look without! but there is no more difference here than in the case of Self-Power and Other-Power. Self-Power is Other-Power, because Self is Other. Looking at the microcosm is looking at the macrocosm, for one without the other is meaningless.”
Quote of the day 05/30/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Words are many and the thing is one, but somehow it has got to be portrayed or suggested in words, but as a unity, not after the post-mortem of thought, not after the dissection of the intellect.”
Quote of the day 05/29/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The outside of our mind remains full of fears, prejudices and cravings, yet not the same as before, because deep down inside there is the consciousness that All is Good without comparison or difference. Or to put it in another way, just as the hard horny hands of the young farmer doContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/29/25”
Quote of the day 05/27/25
From Miyamoto Musashi: “From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
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