Some Thoughts on Things
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The farther one pursues knowledge, the less one knows
Zen
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Before I utter a word and you hear it, the whole history of the universe is enacted.
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No one can understand things human who does not first understand things divine”
Upanishads
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There is a world which is not of this world though inseparable from it.
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“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to retain their image.”
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“The intellect concentrates on one small aspect or particular object which at that moment has particular significance. For practical purposes of living, the intellect is an excellent contrivance, but for revealing the Whole, its useless” – D.T. Suzuki
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“Intuition upsets the blissful peace of ignorance, and it does not restore the former state of things by offering something else. It is not final; it wants for something higher than itself for the solution of all the questions it will raise regardless of consequences” – D.T. Suzuki
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Words are like a handful of water out of the river, dead.
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The use of paradox does not spring from a desire to mystify the hearers or oneself. It arises from the inability of language to say two things at once. Paradoxes are bright banners of the liberty of the mind. Reason grips life with a strangle-hold, but life says, ‘to win is to lose’ and as in judo, uses the power of the enemy to escape from it” – R.H. Blyth
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Empty-handed I go, and behold, the spade is in my hand; I walk on foot, yet I am riding on the back of an ox. When I pass over the bridge, lo, the water floweth not; it is the bridge doth flow!
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