Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Transiency

"That everything changes is the basic truth for each existence."--Shunryu Suzuki

This teaching reminds us of the fabled monarch who "once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in his view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.'"

When we learn to direct our will toward a Universe that knows no good or evil, we will not have difficulty accepting the truth that everything is in constant flowing change.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
                     - from Hamlet , Wm. Shakespeare; Act II, scene ii

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