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Yoshida Kenkō shared in his Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) back in the 14th century:
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nothing but mind and nourish, instead, the projection of realms of their own conception.
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Living in Alignment
Real freedom is an attitude akin to pushing up one’s tumbling self from below.
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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Many psychological and spiritual approaches rely on an engineering metaphor and hope to make your mind more predictable and controllable. Koans go the other way. They encourage you to make an ally of the unpredictability of the mind and to approach your life more as a work of art. The surprise they offer is the one that art offers: inside unpredict
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The small nuances of color, the curve of an opening petal, the crack in a bamboo vase, or the decay of a knot in old timber all came to symbolize mujo, which is the Buddhist tenet of impermanence and continuous flux.