Sansho once said If someone comes I go out to meet him but not for his sake Koke said If someone comes I don’t go out If I do go out I go out for his sake
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A lesser light asks Ummon: What are the activities of a sramana Ummon answers: I have not the slightest idea. The dim light then says: Why haven’t you any idea? Ummon replies: I just want to keep my no-idea
So, you see, in the beginning was the Word. And the Word became flesh in the cloth of human universe. But only a poet can expand the universe by paving a way to new realities, like ship with Hawking engine…
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Suffering is the way we test our love, especially our love for God.
A less-enlightened personage once asked Urnmon. What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth? Ummon answered him: A dried shit-stick
If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke.
People are telling not what they thinking. And they’re thinking not the way they are feeling. It is completely unclear what they mean. It seems they said “yes”, but later you find out that it can look like “no”. And…
On Heaven’s Gate, I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and…
One ape tells the other: “Do you know what a conditioned reflex is? That’s what happens when the bell rings and all these quasi-apes in white coats will run toward us with bananas and candies”. Одна обезьяна говорит другой: «Знаешь,…