I’D RATHER BE HERE RIGHT NOW.
– bumper sticker seen this morning
I’D RATHER BE HERE RIGHT NOW.
– bumper sticker seen this morning
“You know what’s the loudest noise in the world, man? The loudest noise in the world is silence.”
Thanks, Mr. Monk, for that and for so many other things. (And if you haven’t read Robin Kelley’s book, it’s a wonderful story.)
Run With Mu is taking its own vow of silence until the early days of 2011. Enjoy a peaceful holiday season.
Take them away, names like Buddhism. I’m impatient with them. There’s something beyond all that, beneath all that, that they all share, that they all come from. They are branches from a single root. And that’s what one has to pay attention to.
– W. S. Merwin, Tricycle Winter 2010 issue
A trail is only useful to get you to where you’re going to leave the trail.
– Gary Snyder
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
– Franz Kafka, The Zurau Aphorisms
That sand’s not gonna rake itself, Hiroshi.
– Jack (Adam Brody), Thank You For Smoking
Beauty underfoot: manhole covers in Japan.
I study Buddhism so that, someday, I won’t have to study it anymore.
– Gary Thorp, “Shelter From The Storm,” Tricycle Summer 2005