"There Is No Ignorance,

“I do not wish to convert people from one organised religion to another; I have no interest in any of these organised religions. My interest is in Dhamma the truth, the teachings of all Enlightened Ones. If at all there is any conversion, it should be from misery to happiness, from defilement to purity, from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to enlightenment.”

— Satya Narayan Goenka

精神是生命真正的支柱

“For movement is the effect of spirit.

Spirit is life."

Edgar Cayce reading 705-2

Shiva dancing, Pattadakal, Karnataka, photo by Kevin Standage 

太極圖

The drums went silent

The stage is bare

No more a touch of elegance

In the Rolling thunder

Of Orphaned Stones

‘Ant on a stone mill’, by Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769).

What do we mean when we say that the mind wanders? Simply that thought is everlastingly enticed from one attraction to another, from one association to another, and is in constant agitation. Is it possible for thought to come to an end?

J. Krishnamurti (via thebuddhistmind)

12 道德經:

五色令人目盲

五音令人耳聾

五味令人口爽

馳騁田獵，令人心發狂

難得之貨，令人行妨。

是以聖人為腹不為目，故去彼取此。

12 The five colors blind the eye. The five notes deafen the ear. The five flavors dull the palate. Racing and hunting drive the heart wild. Goods that are hard to obtain hinder the journey. Therefore, the True Person is guided more by the belly than the eye, and prefers this within to that without. 

or,

   Dao De Jing: (The repression of the desires) Colour's five hues from the eyes their sight will take; Music's five notes the ears as deaf can make; The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste; The chariot course, and the wild hunting waste Make mad the mind; and objects rare and strange, Sought for, men's conduct will to evil change. Therefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and not the (insatiable longing of the) eyes. He puts from him the latter, and prefers to seek the former.