From “A Tea Master’s Vision of the Ten Oxherding Pictures, Part 1”, Chanoyu Quarterly, no. 37, 1984. A translation and adaptation of part 2, sections 1-3, of Hamamoto Soshun’s Tekisuian: Chanoyu Kanwa.
The words ‘I am…’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
A. L. Kitselman (via robot-heart) (via underdogvictorious) (via slowlybecoming) (via andeventhis) (via ferrydust)
Your Miscellaneous Way
Occupying your own skin with joy,
I watch you
listen to yourself living,
discovering each day
how much less of everything
steadies you into being.
- Terrance Keenan
(from Whiskey River)
So-shu dreamed,
And having dreamed that he was a bird, a bee, and a butterfly,
He was uncertain why he should try to feel like anything else,
Hence his contentment.
— Ezra Pound
(thank you, mirabilevisu)
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major: II. Larghetto
Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781)
Shizuka Ishikawa, violin
Dvořák Chamber Orchestra; Libor Pesek
(Beautiful, thanks, musicophilia)
Herbert Ponting ~ “The Freezing of the Sea,” 1911
Wow, thank you billyjane, this is fantastic.
There are two very different ways to meet what arises in experience.
One is to interpret what arises according to our conditioning. This is a self-reinforcing dynamic and results in a closed system in which everything is explained, the mystery of life is banished, and no new ideas, perspectives, or approaches to life can enter. This I call belief.
The other is to open to whatever arises, to allow the reactions and stories of our conditioning to arise but not be swallowed by them, to open to the possibility of not knowing, and thus making a place in our experience not only for the mystery of life, but for new ideas and approaches. The willingness to meet experience this way I call faith.
Ken McLeod via Musings: Faith and Belief (via sharanam)
William Blake
from: darksilenceinsuburbia via: (source)
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
