Solipsism
The central paradox
Tag: mystery
Malleability
All things are impermanent.
Ignorance
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
Gratitude
Life, in all its awesomeness and awfulness, elicits wonder, which leads to thanksgiving.
Know time⇒No time
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
Memento mori III: Dewdrops – Brief poems by Kobayashi Issa
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
“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
The Gloss 