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The Wind Sends her Love
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 […]
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 […]
The Stony Path
Your difficulties are not obstacles on the path, they are the path. –Ezra Bayda In addition to quoting Bayda, Dinty Moore states, “With that logic, even the bad days are useful, even the obstacles are part of the path. Maybe I’m not writing anything worthy of preservation today, but if I’m at my desk, writing, […]
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