As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
―Henry David Thoreau
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Talk talk talk the utter and heartbreaking stupidity…
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
―William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
Stupidity is the same as evil if you…
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
―Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
When practitioners of Zen fail to transcend the…
When practitioners of Zen fail to transcend the world of their senses and thoughts, all they do has no value. Yet, when senses and thoughts are obliterated all the roads to universal mind are blocked and there is no entrance. The primal mind has to be recognised along with the senses and thoughts. It neither belongs to them nor is independent of them. Don’t build your understanding on your senses and thoughts, yet don’t look for the mind separate from your senses and thoughts. Don’t attempt to grasp Reality by pushing away your senses and thoughts. Unobstructed freedom is to be neither attached nor detached. This is enlightenment.
Huang-Po
I have returned to the root and effort…
I have returned to the root and effort is over. From the first there has been no one to see or hear anything. There is nothing outside of my true home. Rivers quietly flow and red flowers bloom.
Kuo-An Shih-Yuan