- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)
Brothers Karamazov
Friday, May 26, 2023
Mysterious Worlds
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Talking to a Rock
lived alone in a small temple in the country.
One day four traveling monks appeared
and asked if they might make a fire
in his yard to warm themselves.
Hogen heard them arguing about
subjectivity and objectivity.
He joined them and said:
'There is a big stone. Do you consider it
to be inside or outside your mind?'
'From the Buddhist viewpoint everything
is an objectification of mind, so I would
say that the stone is inside my mind.'
'if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind.'"
- "The Stone Mind," Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand)
The monk replied, 'I’ve been talking to a rock.'
Yunyan said, 'Did it nod to you (indicating that it understood you)?'
When the monk didn’t reply, Yunyan answered for him:
'It nodded to you before you even said anything.'"
- Yunyan Tansheng (780-841)
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Quiet Light II
- John O'Donohue (1956 - 2008)
To Bless the Space Between Us
Monday, May 22, 2023
Quiet Light
- John Sexton (1953 - )
Saturday, March 04, 2023
The Celestial Way
- Chuang Tzu (c.369 B.C. - c.286 B.C.)
Translation in Teachings of the Tao by Eva Wong
Friday, February 17, 2023
Memory is strange
- Gore Vidal (1925 - 2012)
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
One Model of Reality
born is just one model of reality.
Other cultures are not failed
attempts at being you; they
are unique manifestations
of the human spirit."
- Wade Davis (1953 - )
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Islands in the Sea
separate on the surface
but connected in the deep."
- William James (1842 - 1910)
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Dimensionality of Time
- Alan Lightman (1948 - )
Einstein's Dreams
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Chain of Connection
Wednesday, November 02, 2022
Going with the Flow
- The Daily Zen Journal:
A Creative Companion for a Beginner's Mind
Monday, October 10, 2022
No Such Thing as Time
- Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944 - )
"As long as I live,
I'll hear waterfalls and
birds and winds sing.
I'll interpret the rocks,
learn the language of flood,
storm, and the avalanche.
I'll acquaint myself with the
glaciers and wild gardens,
and get as near the heart
of the world as I can"
- John Muir (1838 - 1914)
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Thursday, September 08, 2022
The Subtle Gāthās of Rock and Water
- John Daido Loori (1931 - 2009)
The True Dharma Eye
Saturday, September 03, 2022
Spielraum
- Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938)
Experience and Judgment
Thursday, August 04, 2022
Act of Perception
- David Bohm (1917 - 1992)
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Monday, August 01, 2022
Simple Secret
a very simple secret:
it is only with the heart that
one can see rightly,
what is essential is
invisible to the eye."
Friday, July 29, 2022
Primordial Purity
empty essence of your awareness
is not created by anyone.
Without causes and conditions,
it is originally present.
Don't try to change
or alter awareness.
Let it remain exactly as it is!
Thus you will be free
from straying and awaken
within the state of
primordial purity."
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Higher Dialectic
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)
Science of Logic
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Inner Sound
if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory,
which accounts for its usefulness.”
Friday, July 15, 2022
Secret of the Sea
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
"Time is more complex near
the sea than in any other place,
for in addition to the circling
of the sun and the turning
of the seasons, the waves
beat out the passage of time
on the rocks and the tides rise
and fall as a great clepsydra."
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)