"And this alone awaits you, when you dare to that sheer verge where horror hangs, and tremble against the falling rock; and, looking down, search the dark kingdom. It is to self you come, --and that is God. It is the seed of seeds: Seed for disastrous and immortal worlds. It is the answer that no questions asked.
-- From Conrad Aiken, "Preludes for Memnon or Preludes to Attitude," 
". . . the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world)"
-- Humbert Humbert speaking in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 
Whatever is material shape, past, future, present, subjective or objective, gross or subtle, mean or excellent, whether it is far or near all material shape should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it really is: "This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self." Whatever is feeling, whatever is perception, whatever are habitual tendencies, whatever is consciousness, past, future, present, subjective or objective, gross or subtle, mean or excellent, whether it is far or near all should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it really is: "This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self." Zen Quotes by Buddha Gautama (born 563 B.C.)
Chuzhen: One single still light shines bright: if you intentionally pursue it, after all it's hard to see. Suddenly encountering it, people's hearts are opened up, and the great matter is clear and done. This is really living, without any fetters -- no amount of money could replace it. Even if a thousand sages should come, they would all appear in it's shadow.
"On all sides I escape being and yet -- I am."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Milli 2007
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