Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.
Matsuo Basho
Category: Quote of the Day
The dragonfly
The dragonfly
can’t quite land
on that blade of grass.
Matsuo Basho
Winter solitude
Winter solitude –
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.
Matsuo Basho
The morning glory
The morning glory also
turns out
not to be my friend.
Matsuo Basho
The eyes don’t say…
The eyes don’t say,
“Sure we’re lower, but we see more.”
The eyebrows don’t reply,
“Sure we don’t see anything, but we are higher up.”
Kodo Sawaki
When everyone in the world sees beauty
When everyone in the world sees beauty,
Then ugly exists.
When everyone sees good,
Then bad exists.
Lao Tzu
Knowledge
We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.
Shunryu Suzuki
Peace of mind
You lack peace of mind because you’re running after an idea of total peace of mind. That’s backwards. Be attentive to your mind in each moment, no matter how unpeaceful it might seem to be. Great peace of mind is realized only in the practice within this unpeaceful mind.
When dissatisfaction is finally accepted as dissatisfaction, peace of mind reigns.
Kodo Sawaki
Mind
Mind is interested in what happens, while awareness is interested in the mind itself. The child is after the toy, but the mother watches the child, not the toy.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you want to sin
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous.
Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
