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18.07.1998 - Interpretation by dali48
The wise man does not discuss / Not by a principle / But because he has nothing to say / He is empty and simple / Like a newborn child / Who gets his milk directly from "Mother Tao" / He has all the food he needs / So why should he discuss? ... (R. Smullyan)
In fact, all the situations in which one living entity delivers his will to another being. - I can not stand situations in which one commands and others obey. - By worshiping an object one tends to move away from it at the same time, instead of making it one's own. - The "worship" of the Buddha - or the Buddha nature is often a substitute - for attaining the Buddha nature. - Jesus was not an incarnation of "God" but an "enlightened" person and a religious teacher and innovator. - Worshiping statues of the Buddha - is nothing but idol worship (see e.g. Zen: "Should the name Buddha come over your lips, then wash your mouth" etc. - d.48) ...
There on the temple bell / is sleeping a butterfly ... (Haiku of Buson)
For me, nothing is as aggressive and hostile as someone who is constantly telling someone else that he ought to say - what the "purpose" of his doing is ...
Taoists:
neither an exaggerated reverence nor lack of respect (see "golden middle" - yin and yang etc. - d.48).
Zen masters have the ability to turn their deepest reverence from one minute to another into complete disrespect, without even the slightest contradiction between these two states (see e.g. abused ideals, etc. - d.48) ...
The Tao has no purpose / and therefore fulfills all purposes / miraculously ... (Lao-Tse)
For most of the things I've done in my life, at the time I did it, I had no purpose in mind. But now I recognize the underlying purpose that hid behind them. - The minstrel strokes the fiddle ...
Write something and leave it behind / Is like a dream / When we wake up, we know / That it will not even be read by anyone ... (Ikkyu)
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician ... In addition, humans always tell the truth, and vampires always lie. For example, an insane vampire will believe a false thing (2 + 2 is not 4) but ...
Spouse(s): Blanche
Doctoral advisor: Alonzo Church
Born: Raymond Merrill Smullyan; May 25, 1919; ...
Nationality: American
Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村, 1716 – January 17 1784) was a Japanese Haiku poet and painter, usually referred to simply as "Buson". He is one of the greatest poets ...
Laozi (Lao Tsu, Lao-Tze) was a Chinese philosopher best known for Taoism, the ... A legendary figure of Chinese culture, Laozi may have lived during the ...
Ikkyu (一休宗純 Ikkyū Sōjun) (1394–1481) was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, poet and calligrapher. He was born as an illegitimate ...
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