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11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us ambush the innocent without reason;
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13 we shall find all precious goods,
we shall fill our houses with plunder;
14 throw in your lot among us;
we will all have one purse”—
15 my son, do n... See more
Proverbs 1:11–19; Psalm 1
This error succeeded in confusing matters, such that shūkyō, which formerly referred strictly to the Zen path of realization, now came to refer to the whole panoply of faiths covered by the English word “religion.”
Kōun Yamada • Zen: The Authentic Gate
sick on my journey ,
my dreams go wandering
on this withered field
Matsuo Basho, Death Haiku, 1694
philo-sophic-ally-speaking • Matsuo Bashō’s Death Haiku
Unsure what to type yet but making a note.
No-one knows exactly when the gloriously sonorous noun zibaldone appeared, or what it originally meant. The earliest record of the word, in the mid-fourteenth century, refers to it as Florentine slang, without further definition, and we can only infer from context that it means something like ‘mess’ or ‘jumble
Roland Allen • The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
Note: According to the biography of the ninth-century poet-recluse Lu Kuei-meng , as recorded in the Hsintangshu (New History of the T’ang Dynasty),
Stonehouse Red Pine • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
I don’t know if I should____________.