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Disciplined by wind and snow,
The Way of Reinan opens.
Look! moon high, plums a-bloom,
The temple's fixed in stillness.

- Eun (1232-1301)

One ought to draw close
to those who seek meaning,
while keeping a great distance
to those who are caught up in words.

- Buddha

Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words
and never stops, at all.

Emily Dickinson

The Way, crossed by many paths,
The moss, crossed by sandal tracks.
White clouds lean, at rest on the silent island.
Fragrant grasses bar the idle gate.
Out along the mountain, to the source,
Flowers in the stream reveal Chan's meaning.
Face to face, and all words gone.

- Liu Chang-qing (709-785)

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

~ Norm Papernick

If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

Sages are not interested in deeds or words.
They simply follow the natural pattern of things.
Things rise, develop, and reach perfection.
This is their order.

- Wang Wu-chiu (~1056)

1970
still nobody listening

The human race was dyin' out
No one left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon
Smog will get you pretty soon

Everyone was hanging out
Hanging up and hanging down
Hanging in and holding fast
Hope our little world will last

DAILY RESOLUTIONS
The idea of "twenty-four-hour living" applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

— AS BILL SEES IT, p. 284
A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes — a time to consider directions, goals, and actions. I must make some plans to live a normal life, but also I must live emotionally within a twenty-four-hour frame, for if I do, I don't have to make New Year's resolutions! I can make every day a New Year's day! I can decide, "Today I will do this . . . Today I will do that." Each day I can measure my life by trying to do a little better, by deciding to follow God's will and by making an effort to put the principles of our A.A. program into action.

From the book Daily Reflections
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.


~embolding is mine~

Sages create but do not possess what they create.
They act but do not depend on what they do.
They succeed but do not claim success.
These all result from selflessness.
Because sages are selfless, they do not lose themselves.
Because they do not lose themselves, they do not lose others.

- Wang An-shih (1021-1086)

I’m continually reminded of Thread 168664


Btw rookie, what was it you thought had “gone askew in my life” and which “hurt” you?

@divegeester said
I’m continually reminded of Thread 168664


Btw rookie, what was it you thought had “gone askew in my life” and which “hurt” you?

@rookie54 said
the thing that drives yer question here
that desire to know, even as you already know
that thing has changed in you, from whenever time as when i did not notice this about the way you are
the fact i did not notice is what pains me hurts me confuses me angers me
i've changed a bit too
folks standing outside my cranium can see it the most, and with better detail, than i can from inside my lil bony prison

does this help?
hope so

Climb the mountain top.

- Hakuyo

When people attain Enlightenment in this sense,
it means that everything is Enlightenment itself as it is;
therefore, people should follow the path to Enlightenment until in their thoughts,
worldly passions and Enlightenment become identical as they are.

- Lankavatara Sutra