DifferentDrummer
01-31-2009, 01:50 AM
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the temple bell stops
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers
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the shadow of the bamboo sweeps over the stairs
but the dust does not move
the disc of the moon passes through the water of the lake
leaving no trace
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Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I.
And the more you become aware of the unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.
You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, "Why, that's me!"
And in knowing that, you know that you never die.
You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears -- now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown -- and so it goes, forever and ever and ever.
-Alan Watts
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the temple bell stops
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers
http://www.adamgreeninteriors.co.uk/images/large%20images/commissions/ohm.jpg
the shadow of the bamboo sweeps over the stairs
but the dust does not move
the disc of the moon passes through the water of the lake
leaving no trace
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh33/ashleymainka/Purification.jpg
Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I.
And the more you become aware of the unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.
You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, "Why, that's me!"
And in knowing that, you know that you never die.
You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears -- now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown -- and so it goes, forever and ever and ever.
-Alan Watts
http://www.sacredmirrors.org/graphics/dl.jpg
.