Takuin
Let it be and find that it is not very close, but rather you are it. If you are it, there's no need to go anywhere to get anything.
| Takuin The moment you decide, "Yes, it is this way." and you memorize that state and recite it verbatim as an answer to living, then you are lost. |
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| Takuin Thanks, Bruce. http://tinyurl.com/5lza7d |
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| Takuin All of this talk about enlightenment is tiresome. Stop telling us how it is. Stop telling us what is supposed to occur. Just stop it. |
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| Takuin A lot of activity today. Mental activity. The mind moves and clicks like a manual typewriter. But where are the fingers that touch the keys? |
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| Takuin "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." - Moby Dick |
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| Takuin No one can "tell" the truth. One can only live it. |
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| Takuin Just got home from Nagoya. Spent most of the day with an ALS patient. |
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| Takuin Art without risk is life without breath. |
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| Takuin Thinking over new podcast possibilities. |
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| Takuin I'll catch up on e-mail this weekend, don't worry. |
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| Takuin That dullness has arrived. One ate too much after training. |
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| Takuin Life is lived simply, and the organism functions. It is not a story because if it were, there would be a storyteller. But there isn’t. |
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| Takuin Thought cannot touch this "nothing." It only functions within the known. It can theorize and imagine beautifully, but that cannot help. |
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| Takuin Listen to me carefully! "OK. What is it? I am waiting!" Keep waiting. "For what?" For that. "For what?" For this. "Is it this or that?" Yes. |
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| Takuin Sensations come and go. |
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| Takuin Going to Tama Zoo with Akiko. Will most likely have several new photos to show for it on Flickr. |
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| Takuin There is the wind, sound of the rain on the street, touch of your hand to one's face. I can't take it with me. Only once. Always once. |
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| Takuin is marveling at the work of Irish painter Francis Bacon. |
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| Takuin @SuzanneD 1001 Arabian Nights. It is all three. Find the most definitive and historically up to date version that you can. It is lovely. |
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