A less-enlightened personage once asked Urnmon. What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth? Ummon answered him: A dried shit-stick
Category: Quotes
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,…
People can be easily made united in their aspirations, if correct path is chosen, but you cannot discuss this path in their presence. Sun Tsu
Having too many people judging about politics means to call for bad luck to country. Home Minister of Japan Hirobumi Ito. 1879
“Walking is martial arts” Morihei Ueshiba What this means is that no matter what sort of physique you have, you can do Aikido. Whether you are rigid or soft or thin or heavy set, you can do Aikido in your own way…
Learn it, then forget about it Ueshiba Sensei’s way of teaching was quite different from the instructional methods used today. In those days, Sensei would first demonstrate the technique we were to practise, simply giving us an idea of the movements. By…
The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain.