Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is not particularly well written. Perhaps its contents are powerful, perhaps it condenses a complete vision of human life within, but unfortunately it often reads more like a tract or advertisement with convincing the reader of the value of TM as its [...]
Clouds of bubbles fitted in among the shards of tea leaves in my tea bag. There must be millions of them squirming around as the bag bobbles, vying to move upward, to surface, to breathe. Who is keeping track of them all? Do they all disappear or at least take a breather when I’m not [...]
As the clump of pages remaining thins, I grow sad and nostalgic. I don’t want to leave this precious world behind. Miss Saeki, Komura Library, the painting of the beach, Oshima, his cabin in the woods, the boy named crow (my shadow), Nakata, Hoshino, Sakura … Murakami has somehow played this world into my life. [...]
Understanding and love are not two things, but just one …… When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way [...]
Expanse of Litang sky. Bluer than here, that’s for sure. But wider? The narrowing scope of mind squeezed by life here – that same sheet of heaven folds far and small, here out of sight.
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