心虛則性現 不息心而求見性 如撥波覓月 意淨則心淸 不了意而求明心 如索鏡增塵 (前 171) When your consciousness is to be in emptiness, nature of mind comes out. Trying to find it without taking a break of your thinking is like fiddling with

能脫俗便是奇 作意尙奇者 不爲奇而爲異 不合汚便是淸 絶俗求淸者 不爲淸而爲激 (前 169) If you can escape from secular inside the secular, you are an extraordinary person. A person who intentionally behaves like a geek cannot be an extraordinary

Buddha Zygote early 14c., "act of conceiving in the womb," from Old French concepcion (Modern French conception) "conception, grasp, comprehension," from Latin conceptionem (nominative

憑意興作爲者 隨作則隨止 豈是不退之輪? 從情識解悟者 有悟則有迷 終非常明之燈 (前 167) What you start impulsively seems to stop soon or not to continue long. Why cannot it to be a wheel that doesn't retreat? What is understood as emotion and

前人云 “抛却自家無盡藏 沿門持鉢效貧兒” 又云 “暴富貧兒休說夢 誰家竈裡火無烟? 一箴自味所有 一箴自誇所有 可爲學問切戒 (前 160) Old man says "Ignoring the vast wealth of one's own house, he pretends to be a beggar in front of other people's houses,"

It was very disappointing that the place where there were peppermint colony last year was bleak when I came to plant the seed potatoes 18 days ago. What? I was surprised to see group of peppermint has

25 Integral Theory Ideas When evaluating a person's level of consciousness, if you can define characteristics of that person by dividing the various factors, your understanding of that person will be

Levels of Consciousness But what developmental studies unmistakably show is that, at each level of our development, we actually see and feel and interpret the world in dramatically different ways. Each

[取財圖] Picture that attracts money 交市人 不如友山翁 謁朱門 不如親白屋 聽街談巷語 不如聞樵歌牧詠 談今人失德過擧 不如述古人嘉言懿行 (前 157) Making friends with people at the market is not as good as making friends with an old man in deep mountains.

Sen Kalathari Starts at the navel and divides into 4 branches. Two travel up to the shoulder and down the middle of the arms to the hand, branching out to the tips of each finger. Two travel down the lower

有一念而犯鬼神之禁 一言而傷天地之和 一事而釀子孫之禍 最宜切戒 (前 152) One thought breaks the taboo of heaven. One word breaks the harmony of heaven and earth. One action leaves a disaster on the offspring. It must be carefully guarded

Waves 水不波則自定 鑑不翳則自明 故心無可淸 去其混之者而淸自現 樂不必尋 去其苦之者而樂自存 (前 151) If the water is not rippled, it will become calm by itself. A mirror is clear on its own if there are no stains. Therefore, trying hard doesn't

Camellia flowers fall off as preserved 'flower head' itself at the most beautiful state and it sounds "Whoo doo doo dook!". The sight seems to induce sad emotions. There is one famous song, depicting

The fact that the 10 energy lines(sen) defined in Thai massage start from the navel and circulate through the extremities and the head, and three central lines(nadi) that crosses in the form of seven

Indra's net 魚網之設 鴻則罹其中 螳螂之貪 雀又乘其後 機裡藏機 變外生變 智巧 何足恃哉? (前 149) A geese was caught in a net set for catching fish. A sparrow is peeking behind the mantis who is trying to catch its prey. Strategies are nested

Self-Portrait 一燈螢然 萬籟無聲 此吾人初入宴寂時也 曉夢初醒 群動未起 此吾人初出混沌處也 乘此而一念廻光 炯然返照 始知耳目口鼻皆桎梏 而情欲嗜好悉機械矣 (前 146) A lonely lamp flickers like a firefly, and all the sounds of the world are silent. Now is the time for us

Ginkgo leaves resembling flippers began to bloom. It is a representative street tree in Korea. Although they are the same tree, they also have different growth rates. Even it must have been planted at

Magnolia kobus Been living here for about 10 years. I've walked this same promenade at least hundreds of times, but I've only just discovered the magnolia flower. It's one of my very favorite flowers.

惡忌陰 善忌陽 故惡之顯者禍淺而隱者禍深 善之顯者功小而隱者功大 (前 138) Evil hates darkness and good rejects light. Therefore, the evil that is revealed has few calamities and the evil that is hidden has more calamity. The revealed

吾身一小天地也 使喜怒不愆 好惡有則 便是燮理的功夫 天地一大父母也 使民無怨咨 物無氛疹 亦是敦睦的氣象 (前 128) My body is a small universe. If well-disciplined at happiness or anger that have no faults, and well-coped with proper ethics at the friendliness