Zen
2012年7月9日（月）
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. “John Burroughs（アメリカ人博物学者／評論家）
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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. “
Kahlil Gibran（アメリカ人作家）
“Emptiness:
We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.”
Tao Te Ching（老子道徳経：中国の思想家老子が書いたと伝えられる書 ）
We turn clay to make a vessel, but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.”
Lao Tzu（道教を興した中国の思想家：老子）
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“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. “
Charles Lindbergh（アメリカ人飛行士）
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affectation for a few people near us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein（アインシュタイン：ドイツ人理論物理学者）
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“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the universe’, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affectation for a few people near us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein（アインシュタイン：ドイツ人理論物理学者）
Soil, sun, rain, sky …
Four Elements embracing,
Intertwined in mind.
Unfathomable Matrix;
Scaffolds on scaffolds
Grounded in Otherness.
Below seeds, flowers, leaves,
stems, roots …
Below wet cells embraced,
Below atoms dancing on Energy …
Deeper and deeper below into
What? A Plenitude, sacredness.
Emptiness in full bloom.
Above seeds, flowers, leaves,
stems, roots …
Above water, soil, air, sunlight …
Above sensing, feeling, working, thinking …
Higher and higher out towards
What? “Vast emptiness, nothing holy.”
Flowers in the sky.
Koge（香偈とは浄土法事讃から採った偈文）
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
The world is like a mirror you see? smile and your friends smile back.
. Nothing will reflect in streaming water.
It is only in still water that we can see.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature
“If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
Tao Te Ching（老子道徳経：中国の思想家老子が書いたと伝えられる書 ）
