Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, 1763 – 1828) was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals. He was born in 1763 with the name Kobayashi Yatarô to a farmer and his wife in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of approximately one hundred houses in the highlands of the province of Shinano, close […]
The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on human maturation. Become a wise child! Compare: https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/62d9edfe9964bc0007a038d2
Pursue pleasure, the springboard to ecstasy. Compare: Bhogayoga (भोगयोग)
Practice deathbed meditation thusly: “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.” “So is all conditioned existence to be seen.” https://diamond-sutra.com/read-the-diamond-sutra-here/diamond-sutra-chapter-32/
The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on death. Compare: Memento Mori — (Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” https://dailystoic.com/what-is-memento-mori/
This day prompts one to reflect, meditate, and act. Still, answer this question first: Who is the I that cares for me? https://isfglobal.org/international-self-care-day/
Wake without needing caffeine. Sleep without needing melatonin.
Draw, paint, sculpt, construct, cultivate, husband, direct, write, act, perform, joke, regale, dance, sing, make music, make love. Corollary: Spectate less, consume less; participate more, create more.
In wildness is the preservation of the world, not just exterior wildness but interior wildness too. Compare: https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/62ad058b02ac500007ef03b3
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