Shedding
perhaps, ugly
perhaps, painful
till purity emerges.
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Sunday, 22 October 2017
... There are great treasures ....
“… There
are great treasures in the soul: there’s faith, there’s love, there’s awe,
there’s wisdom, all these treasure you can dig – but if you don’t know where to
dig, you dig up mud.
But if
you want to get to the gold, which is the awe before God, and the silver, which
is the love, and the diamonds, which are the faith, then you have to find the
geologist of the soul who tells you where to dig … but the digging you have to
do yourself.”
Hasidic Rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz)
Dig inside
Dig
inside; inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will
forever dig.
Marcus
Aurelius (121-180 CE)
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
The multitude emphasize gain
The multitude emphasize gain, the upright
scholars emphasize fame; the talented emphasize ambition even more, and the
sages emphasize unusual purity.
Zhuangzi
The lotus flowers
“After the Lotus
Flowers Have Opened”
The lotus
flowers on West Lake have opened well.
It’s time to
bring the wine!
There’s no need
to wave signal flags
when all around
us are red curtains and green canopies!
We punt our
painted boat where the flowers are thick.
Aroma floats
from our golden cups.
Misty rain is
light and fine,
with a bit of
pipe song I go home drunk!
Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072)
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