Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by? Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry; Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky? Have you heard the still voice calling – yet so warm, and yet so cold: “I’m the Mother-Bush […]
No one is absent and no one is ignorant. Originally, no one is deluded. – Bankei (1622-1693)
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” – Isaac Newton
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.” – Edward Abbey
They act without mind, They respond with certainty. – Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157)
After enlightenment one understands That the Six Classics Contain not even a word. – Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
DSC00556 – Cliff Edge Originally uploaded by RaeA. When you just sit, you are free from the five sense desires and the five hindrances. – Dogen (1200-1253)
Does one really have to fret About enlightenment? No matter what road I travel, I’m going home. – Shinsho
(on the occassion of Australia advancing in the World cup) a ball lover is our god a soccer player he is the whole universe his field the planets, the stars, our earth all shuttling through space like balls shove from one corner to the other our heads, our eyes, the balls that the gods give […]
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone That want is here a stranger, and that misery’s unknown; For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet My window-sill is level with the faces in the street Drifting past, drifting past, To the beat of weary feet While I sorrow […]