to be deeply ingrained in our culture. I know I lived with goals for many years, and in fact a big part of my writings here on Zen Habits are about how to set and achieve goals.
These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It’s absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn’t mean you stop achieving things.…
I Ching and choosing the right TIME to ACT, utilising the
concept of Trigrams that are made up of three lines and these
can be unbroken (yang) or broken (yin). The lines signify the
two basic forces of the of the physical world, masculine yang
energy and the receptive, yielding , feminine yin energy. The
wisdom of yang and the compassion of yin unite to produce
an infinite number of outcomes. Think of the I Ching as China’s
accumulated wisdom and philosophy encapsulated within a
set of 64 linear symbols known as hexagrams.These lined
symbols describe situations experienced by mankind working
together with the forces of the universe. These forces are
described by the Chinese as the interactions of teen ti ten,
or heaven, earth and mankind.
TODAY, WE SEE WAR CONDONED... IN the name of
the patriarchal gods of Allah, Jesus and Jehova.
The divine is not understood by these people
as part of a circular pattern emulating nature,
but it is now a linear theology of One shot.. either
up to heaven [with optional virgins] or down
to hell - Kelly Bell NATURE is our religion, and the eternal cycle our holy book.
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to sense
worth from within ... as DT Suzuki wrote, in 1953, in his
introduction to Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery …
CHILDLIKENESS has to be restored … with long years of
training in the art of self-forgetfulness.
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FOCUS.
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion. He was in the forefront of popularizing Eastern religions and philosophies (especially Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism) and making them accessible for Western audiences - WHO would no doubt have agreed with the statement that -
IT IS NO MEASURE of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
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