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Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Basho wrote his haiku in the simplest type of Japanese speech, naturally avoiding literary and “highbrow” language, so creating a style which made it possible for ordinary people to be poets. Bankei, his contemporary, did just the same thing for Zen,
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
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life begets growth
growth begets growth
how can our minds be so resilient
to such growth
how can our hearts
pump ever stronger
as if to burst
the garden of growth’s walls
a hedge of prickly thorns
amid insurmountable mountains
how is it that in my periods of extreme depression, I had thought the worst of thoughts. and yet, today I still breathe the
... See moreI miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some 36 good twists by the time I’ve got up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the
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Matthew Jay • 2 cards
The rarity and preciousness of human life. The inevitability of death. The awesome and indelible power of our actions. The inescapability of suffering.