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“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
In this way, the great minds of the Hesperoe do not die. To converse with them, the Hesperoe only have to find the answers on the mind maps. Thus, they no longer have a need for books as they used to make them—which were merely dead symbols—for the wisdom of the past is always with them, still thinking, still guiding, still exploring.
Ken Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
And naturally, I wish I could have done a better job. But I’m reminded of a comment Nan Huai-chin made to me during a five-hour dinner at his home in Shanghai five years ago. The ninety-year-old Zen layman recounted when he was young asking Empty Cloud why the old master kept restoring Zen monasteries but never finished them. Empty Cloud slapped hi
... See moreRed Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Phaedrus felt that at the moment of pure Quality perception, or not even perception, at the moment of pure Quality, there is no subject and there is no object.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves.… There’s so much talk about the system.
... See moreDonella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Mundane Excellence, Comfortable Torture, a Dividing Line, the Reality of Creativity, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and Paul Graham
A child grows up to be a man of sixty. Certainly the man of sixty is not the same as the child of sixty years ago, nor is he another person.