Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. –Ikkyu (Zen Inspirations by Miriam Levering, p.40) Christian Parallels Ikkyu (1394-1481) was a Japanese Zen master and poet. His words […]
Archives for December 2012
The Path through Hell
“The road of experiential knowledge that Jung spent most of his life leading people along is clearly not a road that is readily walked. As Jung relates, for many ‘the steep path of self-development is . . . as mournful and gloomy as the path to hell’” (C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity by […]
Something Ancient, Something New
“After the illness a fruitful period of work began for me. A good many of my principal works were written only then. . . . I no longer attempted to put across my own opinion, but surrendered myself to the current of my thoughts” (Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung, p.297). Jung needed to surrender […]