By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
Huineng (via aspiritualwarrior)
1 of 30 Golden Tigers on the Planet
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing… with which I am not linked.”
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Carl Jung
art by Vanessa Lemen
“For movement is the effect of spirit.
Spirit is life."
Edgar Cayce reading 705-2
孔德之容,唯道是從。
道之為物,唯恍唯惚。
忽兮恍兮,其中有象;恍兮忽兮,其中有物。
窈兮冥兮,其中有精;其精甚真,其中有信。
自古及今,其名不去,以閱衆甫。
吾何以知衆甫之狀哉?以此。
21 [The empty heart, or the Dao in its operation]
The Great Virtue is to follow the Tao and only the Tao. The Tao is shadowy and intangible. Intangible and evasive, and yet within it is a form. Evasive and intangible, and yet within it is a substance. Shadowy and dark, and yet within it is a vital force. This vital force is real and can be relied upon. From ancient times to the present the Tao's instructions have not been forgotten. Through it can be perceived the beginning of the story of life. How do I know how it was at the beginning of the story of life? Because of what is within me.
7 tamed and sublimated wheels of energy by the solar feminine into the cosmic presence
The woman clothed with the sun and the seven headed dragon, 1511, Albrecht Dürer
Medium: woodcut
To be owned by one's true self, end of the individuation process
Godness
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William Blake
Untitled, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art
Purchase, William Spielman Bequest, in memory of William and Bette-Ann Spielman, 2009 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Copper alloy
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/75359
True Mountain Covered with Cloud
Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴, January 19, 1686 - January 18, 1768) was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is regarded as the reviver of the Rinzai school from a moribund period of stagnation, refocusing it on its traditionally rigorous training methods integrating meditation and koan practice.