Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
he also spent many years as a Zen monk in the temple of Daitokuji in Kyoto,
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
High in the mountains of Tibet, where the ground is too rocky for burial and trees too scarce to provide wood for cremation pyres, Tibetans have developed another method of dealing with their dead. A professional rogyapa, or body breaker, slices the flesh off the corpse and grinds the remaining bones with barley flour and yak butter. The body is
... See moreCaitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Fundamentally, Tianming was not suited to live in society, nor out of it. He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering. He had no idea where he was headed in life.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Book 3)
Eat merely to relieve your hunger; drink merely to quench your thirst; dress merely to keep out the cold; house yourself merely as a protection against personal discomfort. It matters little whether the house be built of turf, or of variously coloured imported marble; understand that a man is sheltered just as well by a thatch as by a roof of gold.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
And in the land of the cuckoo, Lao-tzu finally achieved anonymity as well as immortality.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
The Human Condition
Sarah Whitlock • 2 cards
The tonseisha’s niche between the mundane and monastic worlds produced not only freedom but, frequently, a difficult tussle between ways of being that were at bottom hard to reconcile.