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"Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom" is a wonderful little book. First published in AD 1238, it is considered the world's earliest-known printed art books. Through a series of brief four-lined poems and illustrations inspired by each moment of the plum blossom's life, Sung Po-jen aims at training artistic perception: how to truly see a plum blossom.
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When you enter a monastery the world just disappears
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Approaching everything with beginner's mind is best practice in the user generated reality.
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Attention/Intention (意, Yi) manifests the bifurcation point in the user generated reality.
While it's fashionable to try to accelerate the traversal of slices of time, fewer are mindful of the depth of each slice. Intentionally slowing down time to fully experience the now, leads to momentous moments that alter the rest of our life in mysterious ways.
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Detach from the laws of detachment to detach from detachment. Embrace it.
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“It is better to restore one dead heart to eternal life than to restore to life a thousand dead bodies.” — Annemarie Schimmel (1922 - 2003), in "Mystical Dimensions Of Islam"
Related: “The Secrets of Creative Love: The Work of Muhammad Iqbal”, by Prof. Annemarie Schimmel
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"Nothing outside yourself can cause you any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm." - Shunryu Suzuki
