Joy

84,000 delusions

84,000 lights

84,000 joys abounding 

Saichi Asahara, Jōdo Shinshū [True Pure Land Buddhism] poet, writer and sandal maker

In Buddhism it is said that there are 84,000 doors to Enlightenment

Sunday Quote: A light in the heart

No striving, no grasping at this or that, no entertaining any self-involved stories whatsoever.

Instead, attention pivots toward a light in the heart in which the ‘field of boundless emptiness’ is revealed.

All questions and doubts are put to rest.

Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091–1157, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk

Sunday Quote: Before

Can you remember who you were,

before the world told you who you should be?

Charles Bukowski, 1920 – 1994, American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Lift your eyes

How can we ever lose interest in life?

Spring has come again
And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.

Ryokan, 1758 – 1831, Zen monk, hermit and poet

Sunday Quote: listen

I tried to discover, in the sounds of forests and waves, words that others could not hear, and I opened up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

[Je tâchais de découvrir, dans les bruits des forêts et des flots, des mots que les autres hommes n’entendaient point, et j’ouvrais l’oreille pour écouter la révélation de leur harmonie.]

Flaubert, November

Sunday Quote: Goodness

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness.

Now, in this life

Leo Tolstoy