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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
- Ashley Montague

i could paint pictures with the broadest brush
one color at a time
but worldly hues are not reflected thus
intricate detail is often missed
and the echo of one fine line

Bend down, and there it is:
No need to wrest it from others.
With the Way, in complete agreement
The mere touch of a hand is spring:
The way we come upon blooming flowers,
The way we see the year renew itself
What comes this way will stay;
What is gotten by force will drain away.
A secluded person in an empty mountain,
As raindrops, picks some blades of duckweed.
Freely to feel the flash of dawn:
Leisurely, with the celestial balance.
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so many lessons i might never understand
let it be
NEW DAY
God bless everyone
no exceptions


How vast karma,
Yet what is there
To cling to?
Last night, turning,
I was blinded
By a ray of light

- Siegen-Yuiin

NEW DAY
God bless everyone
no exceptions


Wise listeners, the wisdom of enlightenment is inherent in each of us.
We fail to recognize it because of delusion of mind,
and so to know our own essence of Mind we seek the teachings of the enlightened.

- Hui-neng

Wisdom is attained in solitude.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

If you wish to enter the one vehicle,
Do not be repelled by the sense realm.
With no aversion to the sense realm,
You become one with true enlightenment.
The wise have no motives;
Fools put themselves in bondage.
One dharma is not different from another.

- Seng Ts'an (?-606)

No wind, no rippling:
The surface, reflecting all, fills my eyes.
What need is there for so many words?
Observing one another is enough.

- Chin'gak Hyesim (1178-1234)

Mahamati, the bodhisattva cultivates the path by practicing the four ways.
The first is to see that all that exists appears from the mind.
The three realms of existence cannot exist independent of the mind.
The realms originate from the idea of "I" and "mind."
They are never in a state of going or coming, but because of enduring habits,
which developed a long time ago, they appear as the three realms.

- Buddha

Get rid of all sham ideas
And erase the traces where they abide.
Then body and mind float in space
And light radiantly beams in.

- T'aego (1301-1382)

Thus, we must see that all things that exist,
actions, words, bondage,
the human body, treasures
or places of residence
are all the results of discrimination.

- Buddha

This is the great mystery:
You do and do not exist.

- Shen T'sing

What are you running after so intently?
Why are you trying to put
A head on top of your head?
Your head is already exactly where it needs to be.

- Lin-chi

Discard thoughts on arising, abiding, and perishing and to see that all is like a dream.
This is because there is nothing that came into being by itself, nor is there anything created by another.
Furthermore, nothing comes about through itself and others.
Things are the creation of one's mind and they have no substance.

- Buddha

even the wise ask questions that haven't answers


I have no secrets to teach you,
And if I tried
You may well make fun of me.
Anyway, how could any understanding
That I have become your understanding?

- Kuei-shan