“The older I get the more sympathetic Nero seems, fiddling while Rome burns is not just defiance, it is a habit we do every day”
“In all this, the tree remains my object, occupies space and time, and has its nature and constitution. It can, however, also come about, if I have both will and grace, that in considering the tree I become bound up in relation to it. The tree is now no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness.” - MB I/Thou
“Dogen: How old are you? Tenzo: Sixty-eight years. Why don't you get an assistant to dry the mushrooms? Tenzo: Other people are not me. Dogen: But why do this now when the sun is so hot? Tenzo: (smiling) If not now, when?”
“More about the Tree, later.”
“Too soon? Even without an emoji, surely this is a joke?”
“Before the branch came off”
“A monk told Joshu: “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.” Joshu asked: “Have you eaten your rice porridge?” The monk replied: “I have eaten.” Joshu said: “Then you had better wash your bowl.”” -Koan
A little Sunday inspiration, Y’all Con/Jur/d 5/9/2021
