Sublime

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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.