Solipsism
The central paradox
The central paradox
All things are impermanent.
Nulla argumenta ad ignorantiam. Apprehend the mystery and live! The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. J. J. Van Der Leeuw Only don’t know! Seung Sahn
Life, in all its awesomeness and awfulness, elicits wonder, which leads to thanksgiving.
We have all the time in the world. I know what time is, but when you ask me, I don’t. Paraphrase of Augustine “We know time.” Dean Moriarty in On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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 […]
“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti Happiness Is Strange