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November 2009 
Quotes from An Arrow to the Heart
Posted on Nov 3rd, 2009
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onederland
onederland
I'm reading a book on the Heart Sutra called An Arrow to the Heart by Ken McLeod.
It's a treasure of a book, full of little gems like these, each one helping me to find new perspective...or to find NO perspective.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen, A Thousand Kisses Deep
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And though I thus liberate countless beings, not a single being is liberated. And why not? Subhuti, a bodhisattva who creates the perception of a being cannot be called a "bodhisattva".
Buddha, The Diamond Sutra
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"I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe--if there is one--for granted...I only decide about my Universe...My Universe is my eyes and ears. Anything else is hearsay."
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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"Everything that comes together ends by falling apart. Work out your own freedom."
(according to tradition, the Buddha's last words.)
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Forget about looking
That's just how you keep your distance.
To see
You have to
Step into the jaws of experience.
Chew and be chewed,
Until nothing is left.
Ken McLeod, An Arrow to the Heart
It's a treasure of a book, full of little gems like these, each one helping me to find new perspective...or to find NO perspective.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen, A Thousand Kisses Deep
****
And though I thus liberate countless beings, not a single being is liberated. And why not? Subhuti, a bodhisattva who creates the perception of a being cannot be called a "bodhisattva".
Buddha, The Diamond Sutra
*****
"I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe--if there is one--for granted...I only decide about my Universe...My Universe is my eyes and ears. Anything else is hearsay."
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
*****
"Everything that comes together ends by falling apart. Work out your own freedom."
(according to tradition, the Buddha's last words.)
*****
Forget about looking
That's just how you keep your distance.
To see
You have to
Step into the jaws of experience.
Chew and be chewed,
Until nothing is left.
Ken McLeod, An Arrow to the Heart
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