Wisdom brings a wholeness
which understands its own ignorance.
Someone with a little knowledge denies this,
but those who study their lives long and
diligently know that they do not
know anything.
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the aristocracy of the heart
collect and keep happy experiences
Tawazu’ in Sufic terms
means something more than hospitality.
It is laying before one’s friend willingly what one has,
in other words sharing with one’s friend all the
good one has in life, and with it,
enjoying life better.
When this tendency
to tawazu’ is developed, things that
give one joy and pleasure become more enjoyable by
sharing with another. This tendency comes from the aristocracy
of the heart. It is generosity and even more than generosity. For the
limit of generosity is to see another pleased in his pleasure,
but to share one’s own pleasure with another is greater
than generosity. It is a quality which is foreign
to a selfish person, and the one who
shows this quality is on the
path of saintliness.
be done with knowing
Be done
with knowing and
your worries will disappear.
How much difference is there between
yes and no? How much distinction between
good and evil? Fearing what others fear,
admiring what they admire —
nonsense.
Conventional
people are jolly and reckless,
feasting on worldly things and carrying on
as though every day were the beginning of spring.
I alone remain uncommitted, like an infant
who hasn’t yet smiled: lost, quietly
drifting, unattached to ideas
and places and
things.
Conventional
people hoard more than
they need, but I possess nothing
at all, know nothing at all,
understand nothing
at all.
They
are sharp; I am dull.
Like the sea, I am calm and
indifferent. Like the wind I
have no particular
direction.
Everyone
else takes his place and
does his job; I alone remain wild
and natural and free. I am different
from the others; I drink
directly from the
Mother.
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in your light i learn how to love
In your light
I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight
becomes this art.
what do sad people have in common?
What do sad people
have in common? It seems they
have all built a shrine to the past and
often go there and do a strange
wail and worship.
What is the
beginning of happiness?
It is to stop being so
religious like
that.
In the ch’an perspective
wisdom is a state that is free from
attachments, free from measurement,
free from self-reference and
empty of vexation.