Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan Wilson Watts
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
philosophy buddhism metaphysical
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
poetry power-of-words
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
science
Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch up with the tortoise, so it is not man but his method of thought which fails to find fulfillment in experience.
science epistemology measurement
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
self suffering
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
principles truth
life wisdom
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
guilt future fear heart now
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
future past reality present zen being
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
time future past illusion present
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
language reality power-of-words translation
The source of all light is in the eye.
nature light observation relativity
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words.. As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.
meaning meaninglessness
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that.. Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence.. You wait till later to find out what the sentence means.. The present is always changing the past.
past meaning present changing
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth.
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