Casual discussion amongst spiritual friends.
by genkaku » Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:03 pm
Someone posted this over at Zen Forum International and ascribed it to someone called I-tuan whom I can't seem to look up. No matter who said or wrote the words, they certainly made me smile this morning:
Talking is blasphemy,
Silence is delusion.
Beyond talking and silence
there's a way upwards -
but my mouth isn't big enough
to point it out.Me and my big mouth!

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by Jechbi » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:21 pm
That's what ears are for.
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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by Fede » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:21 pm
Even with yours wide open, I bet you could comfortably sit in mine.

"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert,
'Eat, Pray, Love'. Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation:
Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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