June 2011
Be not Defeated by the Rain(Ame ni mo Makezu)
not losing to the rain not losing to the wind not losing to the snow nor to summer’s heat with a strong body unfettered by desire never losing temper cultivating a quiet joy every day four bowls of brown rice miso and some vegetables to eat in everything count yourself last and put others before you watching and listening, and understanding and never forgetting in the shade of...
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grooviejazz:
‘Paseo De Gracia’ by Vicente...
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On a day when the wind is perfect
On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a
day.
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My eyes are like the sun that makes promises;
the promise of life
that it always
keeps
.
each morning.
.
The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,
both caress the earth with great
tenderness.
.
This is a breeze that can enter the soul.
This...
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We Are As The Flute
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat: our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely! Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls, that we should remain in being beside thee? We and our existences are really non-existence; thou art the absolute Being...
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“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That’s how I hold your voice.”
– Rumi, from “Buoyancy” in The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks (via proustitute)
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Moment of Grace
Sumi-e by Fumiko Kurokawa
http://www.touchingstone.com/ShowJune11.htm
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You wonder
aperfectcommotion:
what’s inside. You wonder if you can trust it.
— Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
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