June 2011
62 posts
“Concomitant with the loss of knowledge as to who man is, is the abuse of his environment — now erroneously thought to be totally other than man himself. In the resulting dehumanization and desacralization of Nature, man experiences suffering in fear. For if men listen to no other teacher, Nature demands that they listen to it; inevitably, it is the Master who must and will have the...
seeing vs. knowing
“First, put aside the desire to judge immediately; acquire the habit of just looking. Second, do not treat the object as an object for the intellect. Third, just be ready to receive, passively, without interposing yourself. If you can void your mind of all intellectualization, like a clear mirror that simply reflects, all the better. This nonconceptualization-the Zen state of mushin...
