From E-No: “Be free. Don’t be bound by your choosings and wantings. Never mind your sins. Act your desires. Act your Desire. Do not abide in delusion, do not abide in enlightenment. Do not let the mind dwell on goodness or evil. Things and the self are void.”
Tag Archives: understanding
Quote of the day 04/29/25
From the Shinjinmei: “The Way is not difficult; only there must be no wanting or not wanting.”
Quote of the day 04/12/15
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, as in the Shinjinmei, all forms of dualism, right and wrong, good and bad, gain and loss – get rid of them all, forget them!”
Quote of the day 04/04/25
From William Wordsworth: “Let nature be your teacher.”
Quote of the day 04/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We are to ask fervently, to seek passionately, to knock madly – but it must be for nothing. When our self is all asked, sought, knocked away, everything is given, found, opened.”
Quote of the day 03/26/25
From William Shakespeare: “All places that the eye of heaven visits, are to a wise man ports and happy havens.”
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
Quote of the day 03/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zeno of Eleanor showed that things cannot move, a moving arrow is an illusion, Achilles can never overtake the tortoise. But here again life solves the problem by living. We come into existence and go out of it, things move, things overtake other things.”
Quote of the day 03/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…there is a danger that the paradox may be taken as overstepping the mark, as exaggeration for the sake of effect, in answer to the overweening claims of the reason. Such is not the case. To repeat, there is both a shadow and is not a shadow beneath the pine tree. TheContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/20/25”
Quote of the day 03/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Reason grips life with a stranglehold, but life says, ‘To win, is to lose,’ and as in Judo, uses the power of the enemy to escape from it.”
kevinwarstadt.com 