By Thich Nhat Hanh, http://www.lionsroar.com February 23rd, 2017
Most everyone has heard of TNH. He continues to be an inspiration and guide for Practice. This is an interesting article on Lion’s Roar. Posted on Facebook. And all of us, admitted or not, seek happiness for ourselves. Maybe even those we love.
Don’t you just love things that are unique and understated? How sweet to be lovely and not showy. Things to be noticed: the shape of the windows, the black iron gate to (our) left of house—leading to what? where?—and the blue hydrangea in front of the gate.
The house from “A Room With a View” on Facebook
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard—love like all knowledge is recollection.
Where am I? What does it mean to say: the world? What is the meaning of that word? Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here? Who am I? How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought from a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn’t it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager? I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint? ― Søren Kierkegaard
From the Arizona trip—Grand Canyon—2010
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.~Friedrich Nietzsche
As quoted in The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life (2004) by Marcel Danesi, p. 71 from Human All-Too-Human
Nietzsche, it is said, went further into his own mind than anyone else had ever done or is likely to in future. It drove him crazy of course. And then I wonder, how would anyone know? No one could know, unless it is to be determined by what the thinker has written. A Buddhist monk has said that there are at least 30-some levels within the mind. At least that many that he had reached. And he had warned against attempting such a voyage, saying that madness lay in wait. The Grand Canyon of the mind, yes?
published on BODAISHIN page
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey
is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. -Eckhart Tolle
And so it is, so simple, so complete, yet eluding the mind that grasps for it, even into the wonder of the Universe.
