dancing in the rain

Posted on May 11th, 2007 by

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."
-------- unknown author

"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow...."
-------- Bob Dylan

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

"If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.

"When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

"The Way is perfect like vast space when nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.

"Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.

"Live neither in the entanglements of outer things nor in inner feelings of emptiness.

"Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves."

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"The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.

"Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know."
-------- 3rd Zen Patriarch, Sengstau