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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“All too often we love ourselves on the basis of a story of our own specialness or uniqueness. We could call this “the Facebook version of love”, in which the word simply means “like a lot” and/or “strongly approve of”. The great significance our culture places on individual difference is spiritually problematic because on the…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The self-help industry has perpetuated the story that the purpose of human life is psychological and/or spiritual growth, and that this growth – despite never being clearly defined – inevitably leads to the actualization of your innate potential and the manifestation of the “best version of you”. This is in fact a very modern idea.…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“… nothing that can be said in words is complete or absolute Truth. The Real cannot be adequately captured by language, and therefore all attempts to do so are approximations that have a relative utility. An approximation in language (i.e., a narrative) is useful insofar as it ultimately leads you beyond language to a desired…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“… since the dominant belief system of the modern West is psychology, Westerners want to know if the spirits of the traditional view are thought to have independent agency, because if not, they can be explained in psychological terms as aspects of our own mind—which makes most Westerners quite comfortable and prompts them to nod…
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Jenseits des Nennbaren
Read more: Jenseits des NennbarenJenseits des Nennbaren liegt der Anfang der Welt. Sein und Nichtsein erzeugen einander. Der SINN faßt alles Bestehende in sich. Besser ist es, das Innere zu bewahren. Der Geist der Tiefe stirbt nicht. Er entäußert sich seines Selbst, und sein Selbst bleibt erhalten. Des Wassers Güte ist es, allen Wesen zu nützen ohne Streit. Ist…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“By focusing attention on the so-called “objective” consensus about a given object, our culture takes the most superficial layer of reality to be the primary one and thus fails to realize that it is the sum total of the different perspectives on the object that constitute its multidimensional reality. It is the so-called subjective dimension…
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The impurity of individuality (haikus)
Read more: The impurity of individuality (haikus)chasing the me all over, I failed to sit with the them-ness of others – lost presence, lost fullness, lost bliss. fissures and shards will not make a vase.
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“The Zen way to see the truth is through your everyday eyes. It is only the heartless questioning of life-as-it-is that ties a man in knots. A man does not need an answer in order to find peace. He needs only to surrender to his existence, to cease the needless, empty questioning. The secret of…
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Dharma – Artha – Kama
Read more: Dharma – Artha – KamaÎntâi, prețuiești cele mai presus de tine: te închini zeilor, aduci ofrande, respecți societatea. Fără astea nu ești nimic, un om în izolare, un hoit în descompunere pe-un drum. Apoi, te cultivi cu grijă pe tine: intelectul, curajul, frumosul, averea. Aduni înțelepciune, cunoaștere, caracter neclintit – bogății strălucind înmiresmate. Iar în cele din urmă, te…
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Ambition
Read more: AmbitionDigging your nails into the fabric of the world, you ripped its silken texture with your actions. Now, behold your designs: the beauty that might have run through you lies darkened and bloodied and drained. Poem inspired by LaoTse (Tao Te King)
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Wahre Worte sind nicht schön, schöne Worte sind nicht wahr. Tüchtigkeit überredet nicht, Überredung ist nicht tüchtig. Der Weise ist nicht gelehrt, der Gelehrte ist nicht weise. Der Berufene häuft keinen Besitz auf. Je mehr er für andere tut, desto mehr besitzt er. Je mehr er anderen gibt, desto mehr hat er. Des Himmels SINN…
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