Photo taken by Robin Hamon at a Japenese Garden in KY.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.”
Wu-Men (1183-1260)
Between living and dreaming
there is a third thing.
Guess it.
Antonio Machado (1875-1939)
Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
What they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.
Y.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
If you look for the truth outside yourself,
it gets farther and farther away.
Today, walking alone,
I meet him everywhere I step.
He is the same as me,
yet I am not him.
Only if you understand it in this way
will you merge with the way things are.
Tung-Shan (807-869)
Psalm 131
My mind is not noisy with desires, Lord,
and my heart has satisfied its longing.
I do not care about religion
or anything that is not you.
I have soothed and quieted my soul,
like a child at its mother’s breast.
My soul is as peaceful as a child
sleeping in its mother’s arms.
The Book of Psalms, The Bible
(8th? or 3rd? Century B.C.E.)
The Enlightened Heart, An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, Edited by Stephen Mitchell.
