January 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen.
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling.
Related: The Deathly Hallows and The Tale of The Three Brothers.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho.
Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado, [...]
December 25, 2007 – 7:30 pm
From the book, The Sun My Heart.
Let us amuse ourselves for a moment with a dance, so that we can better understand “knowing”. Suppose I say, “I know that it’s windy.” “I” refers more to my mind than my body, so this sentence really means, “My mind knows that it is windy.” Mind is the [...]
December 23, 2007 – 11:03 am
Sunshine is green leaves
Green leaves are sunshine
Sunshine is not different from green leaves
Green leaves are not different from sunshine
The same is true of all forms and colors.
by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Zen poems:
One Knows Not.
December 22, 2007 – 11:24 pm
From the book, The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Meditation is not imitation, but creation. Meditators who only imitate their instructors cannot go far. The same is true of cooking, or anything. A good cook is someone with a creative spirit. You can enter the Meditation on the Interdependence of All Phenomena through many [...]
A zen poem on “One has it; the other has not.”
Don’t be overjoyed at the right.
Don’t be distressed over the wrong.
For the ancient Masters, things are like flowers and blossoms;
Peach blossoms are red, plum blossoms are white, and roses are pink.
Though I ask the spring breeze why they are so, it knows nothing.
Taken from Dalai Lama’s book The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality.
One of the most important philosophical insights in Buddhism comes from what is known as the theory of emptiness. At its heart is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, [...]