Serendipity

20

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:17:43 +1000

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharper;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;
I alone don’t know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother’s breasts.
Tags: 20, don’t care, don’t know, empty, expressionless, idiot, need, nothing, smile, tao te ching

Detachment

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:15:41 +1000

14. The Detached One

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

The Taoist sage seems strangely detached. He functions unconstrained by his own emotions. He knows that his own observations, emotions, thoughts, concepts and judgements are just ripples on the mind’s surface, inconstant and perpetually changing. He realizes that the mind can only reflect compassion clearly - like a tranquil pool the perfect moon - when it has become free of the ripples of thoughts and emotions.

Acts of mercy are not acts of passion to him: they come as naturally to him as sneezing or falling asleep.

Therefore you can rely totally on the sage: his mercy is not dependent on his emotional state, his affinity or aversion to an object, what he believes or any thoughts that might be disturbing the tranquility of his mind.

In a world of inconstancy and illusion, his compassion is constant and real.

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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:32:36 +1000

“Map of science derived from clickstream data - PLoS ONE : accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science”

- Sean’s Tumblelog

vasty yearning pix by minh

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:35:00 +1000

vasty yearning
pix by minh

Yearning

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:07:00 +1000

“If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up the men to gather wood divide the work and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de St. Exupery

sodaplay

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:49:49 +1000

emj3

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:17:11 +1000

emj3

emj2

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:10:02 +1000

emj2

emj1

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:09:04 +1000

emj1

Adolescence

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:07:00 +1000

And now EMJ’s moment.

jmj3

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:04:00 +1000

jmj3

jmj2

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:51:00 +1000

jmj2

jmj1

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:32:00 +1000

jmj1

Adolescence

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:31:00 +1000

They are babies, then children for a long time then that glorious transition - adolesence. Each one passes thru an intensley poetic moment and here are two moments JMJ’s moment & EMJ’s moment.
JMJ first.

camo4

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:27:22 +1000

camo4

camo2

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:26:23 +1000

camo2

camo1

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:25:42 +1000

camo1

rusty pix by minh

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:56:39 +1000

rusty
pix by minh

pointed5

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:31:45 +1000

pointed5

pointed3

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:29:35 +1000

pointed3