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Lee Ching-yuen left clear-cut guidelines for those who wish to follow his footsteps and emulate his example. He followed three primary rules in his regimen: 1. Never hurry through life. Take it slowly, take it easy, and take your time. He instructed his students to always keep a quiet heart, sit as calmly as a tortoise, walk as sprightly as a bird,
... See moreDaniel P. Reid • The Tao Of Health, Sex, and Longevity: A Modern Practical Guide to the Ancient Way
The spiritual descendants of Huai-jang and Hsing-ssu live on today as the two principal schools of Zen in Japan, the Rinzai and the Soto. In the two centuries following the death of Hui-neng the proliferation of lines of descent and schools of Zen is quite complex, and we need do no more than consider some of the more influential individuals.24 The
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
CHIAO HUNG says, “The previous 5,000 words all explain ‘the Tao of not accumulating,’ what Buddhists call ‘nonattachment.’ Those who empty their mind on the last two lines will grasp most of Lao-tzu’s text.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
My old Jiko is dying, my dad is probably already dead by now, and I don’t even believe in myself anymore. I don’t believe I exist, and soon I won’t. I am a time being about to expire.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
You ask me why I dwell in the green mountains.
I smile and make no reply.
My heart is free of care.
The peach-tree blooms,
The waters Flow
Into the unknown.
I dwell in a Realm
That is not of Men.
Lao Tzu • Tao Te Ching | The Essential Translation
However, hermits who can afford them use fired clay tiles. If there is one element of Chinese culture most Westerners find incomprehensible, if not exasperating, it’s the Chinese glorification of acceptance. But acceptance
Stonehouse Red Pine • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
a sense of desolation, employing such visual images as reeds that had been withered by frost. This pattern of use increased, as did the spirit of utter loneliness and finality implied by the term, and it went hand in hand with the Buddhist view on the existential transience of life known as mujo. The concept of mujo, taken from the Sanskrit anitya
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
They took us with groans. They took us with shouts and long-drawn-out moans.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
sages thus seek what no one else seeks they don’t prize hard-to-get goods they study what no one else studies they turn to what others pass by to help all things remain natural they dare not act