And Thus They Spoke...
April 20th, 2010 18:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
remnantmachineMy stack of 'quotes to post on DW' was getting really high, so I figured it was time for another quote post. ♥
☸ A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.
☸ Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
☸ Do you know that even when you look at a tree... the naming of the tree... has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To enter into contact with the tree you have put your hand on it and the word will not help you touch it.
☸ Water, you are the one that brings us life. You are the source of nourishment that gives us strength. We rejoice in your existence. We drink you with joy... and when we swallow you we receive love.
☸ There cannot be anything, any fact - either in the internal or the external world - that does not have a cause and every cause must produce an effect.
☸ Move and the way will open.
☸ We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
☸ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
☸ Silent knowledge - the spirit is enlightened of itself.
☸ Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.
☸ It is everywhere.
☸ Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
All different sizes of quotes this month. ^^
☸ A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.
☸ Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
☸ Do you know that even when you look at a tree... the naming of the tree... has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To enter into contact with the tree you have put your hand on it and the word will not help you touch it.
☸ Water, you are the one that brings us life. You are the source of nourishment that gives us strength. We rejoice in your existence. We drink you with joy... and when we swallow you we receive love.
☸ There cannot be anything, any fact - either in the internal or the external world - that does not have a cause and every cause must produce an effect.
☸ Move and the way will open.
☸ We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
☸ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
☸ Silent knowledge - the spirit is enlightened of itself.
☸ Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.
☸ It is everywhere.
☸ Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
All different sizes of quotes this month. ^^
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Date: 2010-04-21 00:45 (UTC)