Author: DhammaSeeker
stupid within
In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skill but, because here is something he prizes, he allows outward considerations to weigh on his mind. All those who consider external things important are stupid within.
~ Chuang-tzu
Mental stretching
A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do we need any more reason to believe that we are in danger?
Arab States Silent on Iran’s Remarks
CAIRO, Egypt Oct 27, 2005 — Arab governments remained silent Thursday as international condemnation grew over a call by Iran’s new president for Israel to be destroyed….
Iran’s President Calls His Anti-Israel Comment `Right and Just’
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood by his comment that Israel “must be wiped off the map,” ignoring condemnation from the European Union, U.S. and Russia….
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This just makes me boil. What responsible nation-state calls for the complete erasure of another nation? What kind of culture stands idly by when another member state of that culture makes such an assertion. A very dangerous one. That’s what.
death by definition
That which has been successfully defined has been successfully killed.
~ Christmas Humphreys
What’s the question again?
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when each step becomes the goal
The difference between a journey and a pilgrimage is this: on a journey, reaching the goal means success; a pilgrimage is successful only when each step becomes the goal.
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
the river sits
The mountain flows, the river sits.
~ Zen saying
the beauty and precision of this present moment
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace with words and ideas and abstractions–such as merit, such as past, present and future–our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Going, too, is unchanging
Tozan asked Sozan: “Where are you going?”
“To an unchanging place,” Sozan said.
“If it’s unchanging, how could there be any going?” asked Tozan.
Sozan said: “Going, too, is unchanging.”
~ Zen mondo