WHAT HAS BEEN NAMED/EXPERIENCED AS CHAOS AND EXCESS
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ARTIST PALETTE OF INFINITE COLORS FOR CREATION
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EXPRESSING THE RESURRECTED LIFE
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ARTIST PALETTE OF INFINITE COLORS FOR CREATION
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EXPRESSING THE RESURRECTED LIFE
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GLIDED AS BREATH TO CENTER
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DISSIPATES ALL THAT BLURS TAO’S CORE
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DISSIPATES ALL THAT BLURS TAO’S CORE
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The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/mysteries-are-not-to-be-solved.html
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when it only wants to see why.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/mysteries-are-not-to-be-solved.html
See full writing on above site or
Read More at end of this post
Glided By Breath - Familiar Seated Figure in Clouds - Center
Desires unsettle the heart
Until the original nature runs amok.
Yet these are what "men of discernment" claim to live for.
They are not what I live for:
If this is life, then pigeons in a cage
Have found happiness!
–Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-five-enemies.html
(excerpt above...see Read More at end for full version)
Until the original nature runs amok.
Yet these are what "men of discernment" claim to live for.
They are not what I live for:
If this is life, then pigeons in a cage
Have found happiness!
–Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-five-enemies.html
(excerpt above...see Read More at end for full version)
Spontaneity is the essence of all natural action.
In natural action the focus of interest
remains neither in the past nor in the future,
but in the present moment,
the still point of the turning world.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
July 18
In natural action the focus of interest
remains neither in the past nor in the future,
but in the present moment,
the still point of the turning world.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
July 18
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full Rumi and Chuang Tzu quotes
full Rumi and Chuang Tzu quotes
An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: for loving a true love.
Legs: to run after.
Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.
Mysteries are not to be solved. The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.
A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/mysteries-are-not-to-be-solved.html
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: for loving a true love.
Legs: to run after.
Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.
Mysteries are not to be solved. The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.
A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.
–Rumi
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/mysteries-are-not-to-be-solved.html
With the wood from a hundred-year-old tree
They make sacrificial vessels,
Covered with green and yellow designs.
The wood that was cut away
Lies unused in the ditch.
If we compare the sacrificial vessels with the wood in the ditch
We find them to differ in appearance:
One is more beautiful than the other
Yet they are equal in this: both have lost their original nature.
So if you compare the robber and the respectable citizen
You find that one is, indeed, more respectable than the other:
Yet they agree in this: they have both lost
The original simplicity of man.
How did they lose it? Here are the five ways:
Love of colors bewilders the eye
And it fails to see right.
Love of harmonies bewitches the ear
And it loses its true hearing.
Love of perfumes
Fills the head with dizziness.
Love of flavors
Ruins the taste.
Desires unsettle the heart
Until the original nature runs amok.
These five are enemies of true life.
Yet these are what "men of discernment" claim to live for.
They are not what I live for:
If this is life, then pigeons in a cage
Have found happiness!
–Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-five-enemies.html
They make sacrificial vessels,
Covered with green and yellow designs.
The wood that was cut away
Lies unused in the ditch.
If we compare the sacrificial vessels with the wood in the ditch
We find them to differ in appearance:
One is more beautiful than the other
Yet they are equal in this: both have lost their original nature.
So if you compare the robber and the respectable citizen
You find that one is, indeed, more respectable than the other:
Yet they agree in this: they have both lost
The original simplicity of man.
How did they lose it? Here are the five ways:
Love of colors bewilders the eye
And it fails to see right.
Love of harmonies bewitches the ear
And it loses its true hearing.
Love of perfumes
Fills the head with dizziness.
Love of flavors
Ruins the taste.
Desires unsettle the heart
Until the original nature runs amok.
These five are enemies of true life.
Yet these are what "men of discernment" claim to live for.
They are not what I live for:
If this is life, then pigeons in a cage
Have found happiness!
–Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton version
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-five-enemies.html
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