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terracemuse · 1 year
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eelhound · 3 months
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"IN SOLEMN CONTEMPLATION, WE CLEARLY SEE THAT LIFE AND DEATH DO INTERPENETRATE, AND THAT SPRING AND AUTUMN SHIFT POSITIONS THROUGH THE YEAR; WHEN IT COMES IT COMES LIKE THUNDER, ECHOING ACROSS THE BOUNDLESS SKY — WHEN IT LEAVES, IT LEAVES THE WAVES, AMIDST THE VASTNESS OF THE EMPTY SEA."
- my favorite piece of liturgy that my order of Zen Buddhism uses during memorial services.
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yoga-onion · 4 months
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Buddha to his disciples, mini-series (19)
body and mind 
Since both body and mind are made up of cause and effect (skt. Nidana), this body has no substance. The body is a compilation of cause and effect, and is therefore impermanent. If the body had substance, you would be able to do as you wish, by thinking, " be like this, don't be like this," and doing as you wish.
The king, in his realm, can punish what is to be punished, award what is to be awarded, and do as he pleases. And yet he grows old when he does not want to, he gets sick when he does not want to, and not a single thing about himself is as he wishes.
Likewise, our mind has no substance. The mind is also a compilation of cause and effect, and is constantly changing. Our mind thinks evil even though it does not desire, it turns away from good even though it does not need to, and not a single thing is as it should be.
[Image below: Jizo Bosatsu in Underground Mantra Cave, Ishiteji Temple, Ehime, Japan]
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ブッダから弟子たちへ、ミニシリーズ (19)
身心 
身も心も因縁によって出来ているものであるから、この身には実体がない。この身は因縁の集まりであり、だから無常なものである。もしもこの身に実体があるならば、わが身は、かくあれ、かくあることなかれ、と思って、その思いのままになし得るはずである。
王はその領域において、罰すべきを罰し、賞すべきを賞し、自分の思い通りにすることができる。そ��なのに願わないのに老い、願わないのに病み、望まないのに老い、一つとしてわが身については思うようになるものはない。
それと同じく、われわれのこの心にもまた実体はない。心もまた因縁の集まりであり、常に移り変わるものである。もしも心に実体があるならば、かくあれ、かくあることなかれ、と思って、その通りにできるはずであるのに、心は欲しないのに悪を思い、願わないのに善から遠ざかり、一つとして自分の思うようはならない。
ブッダ (中部、巴:マッジマ・ニカーヤ 4・35)
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philosophybits · 6 months
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Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.
Bertrand Russell, What I Believe
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cryptonature · 1 year
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I can barely know you and miss you. I fall in love as easy as a daydream. Today, I cried into my coffee realizing that I would soon read 'Where the Wild Things Are' to my son for the first time. I cry to think there must be a last bluebird, and that they were once so new. Life isn't grand because of castles on hilltops that mean to rule for a thousand years. It's grand because of storms, flashes in the clouds that claim nothing save a memory. It's grand because it ends. Because each moment promises us a forever, knowing it's only half a lie. There is no doom in the world's end. This was your world. This instant. It slipped out as you read this. You might chisel your initials in stone or film the lightning on your phone, but I hope you don't. I hope you just watch, and cry, and try to taste every raindrop.
(Poem by Jarod K. Anderson. Check out his two poetry collections: Field Guide to the Haunted Forest and Love Notes from the Hollow Tree)
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thirdity · 10 months
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To be human we need to experience the end of the world. We need to lose the world, to lose a world, and to discover that there is more than one world and that the world isn’t what we think it is. Without that, we know nothing about the mortality and immortality that we carry. We don’t know that we’re alive as long as we haven’t encountered death: these are the banalities that have been erased. And it is an act of grace.
Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
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sictransitgloriamvndi · 4 months
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outstanding-quotes · 3 months
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I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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quietlotus · 6 days
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“I’ll tell you a secret—
‘All things are impermanent!’”
— Ryōkan
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leonardospoetry · 2 years
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Birth and death are the breath of life.
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design-is-fine · 2 years
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Hans Hansen, Paeonia, 1989. C-Print. Via MKG Hamburg
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apropositodime · 2 months
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Accettare i cambiamenti
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Master Detachment. What stays, stays & what goes, goes..
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yoga-onion · 5 months
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Buddha to his disciples, mini-series (13)
Inevitable things - Impermanence
'Impermanence' means in Buddhism that everything arises, changes and perishes, and does not remain constant. The transience of the human world.
“There are five things in this world that human beings cannot achieve. One, to be old and yet not to grow old. Two, to be ill and yet not to be ill. Three, to be mortal and not to die. Fourth, being destined to perish, yet not perishing. Fifth, to be exhaustible and yet not to exhausted.”
– Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya 5・49)
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ブッダから弟子たちへ、ミニシリーズ (13)
避けられないもの 〜 無常
『無常』とは仏教で、一切のものは、生じたり変化したり滅したりして、一定のままではないということ。人の世が儚いこと。
“この世においても、いかなる人にも成し遂げられないことが五つある。一つは、老いゆく身でありながら老いないこと。二つには、病む身でありながら病まないこと。三つには、死ぬべき身でありながら死なないこと。四つには、滅ぶべきものでありながら滅ばないこと。五つには、尽きるべきものでありながら尽きないこと。” 
ー ブッダ (アングッタラ・ニカーヤ5・49)
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philosophybits · 9 days
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Death may not come this very day, but my complacency is ill-founded. Inevitably the time approaches when I shall die.
Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (2:59)
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