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Eastern Psychology
LEGEND
According to legend, a bowl of vinegar was given to Confucius, Buddha and Lao Tzu. Confucius tasted the vinegar and said it tasted sour. Buddha said it tasted bitter. And Lao Tzu said it tasted sweet.
PRINCIPLES
The void is not self but self is void.
Weakness is not self but self is weakness.
Non-doing is not self but self cannot do.
Emptiness is not self but self is empty.
Meekness is not self but self is meek.
Non-doing is natural as the self is a magnifier and neither the source nor the result of what it magnifies.
The void is not the answer--rather--self as an empty container is the answer.
Surrender is not the answer--rather--absolute weakness as the container is the answer.
Empty, weak, meek: these three are the key to the nature of self, of the inner vessel.
Clean the mirror by emptying the vessel.
Reflect all and let the light drive away what is not of light.
I pray I may be the empty me.
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"Right meditation is the control of identity and the freeing of attention."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."--William Shakespeare, 1546-1616
"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed."--Romans 13:11
"So to understand what is requires a state of mind in which there is no identification or condemnation, which means a mind that is alert yet passive."--J. Krishnamurti in The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume V, page 50
"But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light."--Ephesians 5:13
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking."--Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression."--Sigmund Freud
"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."--Ephesians 5:14
"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart."--Mencius
"While there is much to do physically, there is only nothing to do psychologically."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge does not do."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge does not know."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge does not get it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge is not it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge has no intelligence."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Facts can't figure."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Facts can't feel."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Facts can't fix."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."--Galatians 6:3
"Be where you are. Do what you are doing."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you think too long, you think wrong."--Jim Kaat
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."--Mortimer Adler
"I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me."--William Blake (1757 - 1827)
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed."--Corita Kent
"Appearances are deceptive."--Aphorism
"Quit thinking to think."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Quit thinking to do."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Quit thinking to be."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Thinking can't."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Observe it away."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Well done is better than well said."--Benjamin Franklin
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."--Leonardo DaVinci
"Act--act in the living Present!"--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The best present is the present."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Sit with it until it unwinds itself."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Things are not what they seem." "Things are never what they look like." "Things are not as they appear." "Things are never what they first appear to be."--Aphorism stated in many forms and styles
"Things never turn out the way you think they will."--Aphorism
"Appearances are deceiving."--Aphorism
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."--Aristotle
Inner Quietude
Human Rights: United Nations Declaration
Perfectionism Has its Perfect Place
Postmodernism or Constructivism