How do you tell the universe that you think you have lived long enough, that you have already spent an entire lifetime doing exactly as you wanted, so that now you are just repeating yourself, and who sounds more like a fool than an old man repeating himself?
James Lee Jobe
Trying to convince someone is fundamentally our ego's activity. Even if we prove to be right, our ego seeks a new argument to tangle with.
Haemin Sunim
Filthy America, jump in the pond
And be clean, wash away your filth
And your germs, wash away everything
But your many sins, you dirty fool
You’re stuck with those, for sins
Are more like a brand than they are
Like filth, and a brand stays put.
James Lee Jobe
My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
Pablo Neruda
Silence is a source of Great Strength.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The sound of heavy rain
I awaken - is it afternoon?
It is daytime but dark from the storm
Look at me - an old man
Once again asleep in my chair
With a book on my chest where I dropped it
--Basho’s travels and poetry
Well now - Basho has his journey
And I have mine
James Lee Jobe
If we reduce Buddhist thought and practice solely to a personal and private undertaking, then we lose something immensely important that has the potential to change many aspects of the societies that we live within.
John Peacock
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