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Roland Salz                                                                      
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                    Zen (jap.)   -   Chan (chin.)   -   Dhyana (sanskr.)

     

     

    If he will but listen intently to everyday sounds,

    he will come to realization

    and at that instant see the very Source.

     

                                        Kuo-an Shih-yuan, Comment to the third Oxherding Picture

     

     

     

    What is it that hears these sounds?

     

                                                                          Bassui Tokusho, Dharma talk

     

     

     

    It’s not that ”I hears the birds sing,

    it’s just hearing the birds.

     

    It is the false ”I” that interrupts the wonder with the con-stant desire to think about ”I”. And all the while the wonder is occurring: the birds sing, the cars go by ...

     

                                                                   Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

     

     

     

    After experience had taught me the hollowness and futility of everything that is ordinarily encountered in daily life, and I realized that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save insofar as the mind was influenced by them, I resoved at length to inquire whether there existed a true good, one which was capable of communicating itself and could alone affect the mind to the exclusion of all else, whether, in fact, there was something whose discovery and acquisition would afford me a continuous and supreme joy to all eternity.

     

                               Baruch de Spinoza, Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect

     

     

     

    Werd’ ich zum Augenblicke sagen:

    Verweile doch! du bist so schön!

     

                                                         Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I

     

     

     

    The butterfly counts not months but moments,

    and it has time enough.

     

                                                                                       Rabindranath Tagore

     

     

     

    If by eternity is understood not eternal temporal duration,

    but timelessness,

    then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

     

                                                              Ludwig Wittgenstein,  6.4311

     

     

     

    A nightingale warbles on a twig,

    the sun shines on undulating willows.

     

                                         Kuo-an Shih-yuan, Verse to the third Oxherding Picture

     

     

 

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