Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn has its many moons.
Summer has cool winds,
Winter its snow.
If useless thoughts do not
Cloud your mind,
Each day is the best of your life.
– Wu-Men-Hui-Kai (1183-1260)
Author: Rae Allen
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Seasons
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My mind remains wide
My hut settled among neighbors,
I ignore the noise of horses and carts.
You ask how I get along –
My mind remains wide,
So my place is naturally remote.– Tao Yuan Ming (365-427)
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Unruly life
If I were a tree among trees,
a cat among animals,
this life would have a meaning,
or rather this problem would not arise,
for I should belong to this world.I should be this world to which I am now opposed by my whole consciousness and my whole insistence upon familiarity.
This ridiculous reason is what sets me in opposition to all creation. I cannot cross it out with a stroke of a pen.
– Albert Camus.
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Mist clears
Mist clears from ancient cedars and days last
forever… right and wrong don’t enter the
clouds.– Stone House
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Original Face
Original Face is the reality of realities:
Stretch your hand to the winging bird.
Vertical nose, horizontal eyes – and then?
What if your mind is empty?
– Tokugaku (15th Century) -
true emptiness
If you have not
Linked yourself
To true emptiness,
You will never understand.
– Morihei Ueshiba -
moonlight
The moonlight
High in the sky,
Shining through the eves,
Falls on a mind
Undisturbed by what
Might have been.– Rikyu
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Truth is perfect
Truth is perfect and complete in itself.
It is not something newly discovered;
It has always existed.
Truth is not far away.
It is nearer than near.
There is no need to attain it,
Since not one of your steps leads away from it.– Dogen