It’s funny how we thrive in the shadow of disaster.<\/p>\n
‘You’ve created a Frankenstein’s monster of other people’s personalities, haven’t you?’ She outed the reader.<\/p>\n
Acknowledge.
\n– case 249, Responding to a Wayfarer on the Road<\/p>\n
They always find a way to gulag someone. They always find a way to silence any opposition.<\/p>\n
Am I the only one who loves all these earthquakes?<\/p>\n
Tragedy makes me stronger. There’s no getting around that.<\/p>\n
‘It’s coming!’ He spoke of his great mistake.<\/p>\n
As the candle throws a circular light and our necks receive a circular head that blooms on our necks, we’re still bathed in the circular light.<\/p>\n
And so, my friends, we are happier together; stuck together.
\nProbe your memories and you’ll see it’s true that we are happy little magnets.<\/p>\n
Those who seek it never find it. Those who create it are it.<\/p>\n
Creation, the process and result as an entity superseding that which is stamped through form.<\/p>\n
She was flexible in her heart and overcame all of the immobile challenges that she encountered.
\n– The Leader<\/p>\n
She was honour bound to her family first and herself. Honour grows empires if heldfast to.<\/p>\n
Hey Fengyang,
\nI must do what?
\n– case 255, Ten Realizations, Same Reality<\/p>\n
There’s some payment for everything whether it’s obvious or not.
\nPlease pay me in silence, in your good company.<\/p>\n
Now I realize that whatever I happen to be at the time is not what I want to be.
\n– on the dualistic nature of desire<\/p>\n
Discretion is an invisible force that wields more power than any visible force.<\/p>\n
You aren’t anything. You’re only what you’re attracted to.<\/p>\n
What’s your default? Mine’s ‘conflicted’.<\/p>\n
‘Are you empty of all things old man?’
\nHis muse filled him up.<\/p>\n
If you keep an honesty and an innocence the universe will float you along. They’ll keep you above the water as they’ve lightened you.
\n– enlightened you<\/p>\n
Do you ever wonder what they were thinking about when they spoke of realms beyond our areas of observations?
\nAreas beyond our senses?<\/p>\n
Scholars and monks are different.
\n– case 259, Baiyun’s ‘Still Lacking’<\/p>\n
A good person can harness good even from evil. They can create with energy as a potter can with clay.<\/p>\n
Some forms of ego cause trauma.<\/p>\n
Sorry, I stared into your abyss and I wasn’t even invited.
\nPlease don’t stare back.<\/p>\n
People’s ability to understand it should never be a hindrance to your art. Create and those kindred souls will love you.<\/p>\n
Speech habits aren’t speech habits, they’re thought habits.<\/p>\n
Whatever you consume should come from a holy place.<\/p>\n
She got cozy in the memory of loving experiences.<\/p>\n
It really is attachment that makes you miserable every single time.<\/p>\n
There is some great habit in putting something aside because it’s too much fun.<\/p>\n
What would a true Buddhist want in anything?
\nHow can you justify desire this time?<\/p>\n
Any true art is beyond criticism. If it’s a true creation we have nothing to compare it against as it’s the first. If it’s comparable to true art it’s not true art.<\/p>\n
A paper-thin grip on authority is much worse for all involved than none at all.<\/p>\n
The way your mind works is an experiential work of art.<\/p>\n
Association of place is another driving factor in natural selection.<\/p>\n
Everything we’re doing here now is the natural consequence of the beginning of the universe. Why even bother thinking about it?<\/p>\n
‘I’m only here to give you the bread,’ Jesus said, ‘I don’t have any feelings about what you do with it.’<\/p>\n
I love reading old Zen koans from a thousand years ago. Who did they write that for?<\/p>\n
In broad strokes he paints a wall.
\nIn minute observation he’s called slow but becomes a master artist.<\/p>\n
One really can’t smell anything while they’re asleep.
\nOnly when ones wakes up do they notice a sweetness in the air.<\/p>\n
Some people are like shallow rivers. You plunge in and hit bottom and it’s jarring.
\nSome people are like deep rivers. Some people are more than deep. Some people are magical and you plunge in and emerge as a different person altogether.
\n– Rivers<\/p>\n
To keep going is your only option.
\nDirection is all your choice.
\nTo keep going is your only option.<\/p>\n
To keep going is your only option.
\nWho joins you is all your choice.<\/p>\n
Sometimes when I’m writing too many thoughts or too much poetry I remember that I’ve got koans to get through before I die.<\/p>\n
Imagine every time you dug a hole you found a treasure. That’s what reading koans is like.<\/p>\n
So I love being in love more than loving and I love koans more than reading them.<\/p>\n
Case 261, Stop All Thoughts, is a treasure of a hilarious burn by the 6th Patriarch followed by a sarcastic bullshit koan by Huineng that outshines the original koan in authenticity and insight.
\n– case 261, Stop All Thoughts<\/p>\n
She who abandons ego becomes a function of God, no longer a servant.<\/p>\n
If someone is making a lot of poor decisions, ask yourself how long it will be until you bear the consequence of one of those decisions.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I bend fate and sometimes I don’t. Letting fate run free is the only way to get somewhere new.<\/p>\n
When you warm a book with your hands, you’re warming the fibers of a once living tree. You’re warming the fibers that grew from the earth there.<\/p>\n
‘The truth comes out passionately,’ he apologized to everyone.<\/p>\n
She realized that which she treasured was a burden of sorts. A weighed down soul would not enlighten.<\/p>\n
The woman at the art gallery thought I was from some foreign place.
\nNo, sorry. It’s just weird stupid me from here.<\/p>\n
I wish everyone could get electrocuted by art. How wonderfully trauma bonded we’d all be.<\/p>\n
The world you observe is in some bubble in that your eyeballs are basically bubbles.
\nThere are infinite paths beyond the bubble.<\/p>\n
Breaking one’s mould of oneself first, if nothing else really, requires acknowledgement of the mould.<\/p>\n
Having desires and being led by desire are two separate entities.
\n– Entities<\/p>\n
Hey, stop listening to your stupid brain so much. It’s a real cry baby.<\/p>\n
Emotions should only compel you forward, never cause you to quit.<\/p>\n
Beauty and love and humor appear together.<\/p>\n
When your spirit gets intertwined with another spirit you inherit their karma, good or bad. Find a spirit with good karma to intertwine with.<\/p>\n
I don’t care so much about time as I do movement. Anything other than movement is a label.<\/p>\n
A big part of breaking out of the mould means that you’re more vulnerable. Unfortunately or not, you’re as indestructible as you decide that you are.<\/p>\n
Sit beyond time labels in your meditations.<\/p>\n
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\nWoah, I don’t want to get involved you guys.<\/p>\n