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”
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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 05/28/25
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”
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”
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