16q, QOTD,
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Showing posts with label impermanence. Show all posts
Unjustly obtained wealth
is as snow sprinkled with hot water.
~ Chinese Proverb [19158]
Unjustly obtained wealth
is as snow sprinkled with hot water.
~ Chinese Proverb [19158]
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
~ Indian Proverb [17632]
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
~ Indian Proverb [17632]
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16, POTD, Proverb of the Day,
First there is a mountain,
then there is no mountain,
then there is.
~ Zen Proverb [19587]
First there is a mountain,
then there is no mountain,
then there is.
~ Zen Proverb [19587]
The words of impermanence and perception trace back to Zen scholar Qingyuan Weixin, who explained:More Buddhist Proverbs More Taoist Proverbs More Zen Proverbs
Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and rivers once again as rivers.
They were later made famous by Donovan Leitch who crafted them into song:
Allman Brothers instrumental version, Mountain Jam:
Grateful Dead perform Mountain Jam at Watkins Glen Festival with Allman Brothers joining in:
16q, QOTD,
Beauty passes; wisdom remains.
~ Kurdish Proverb [15812]
Beauty passes; wisdom remains.
~ Kurdish Proverb [15812]
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What can you do with a good cow that
gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over?
~ Jewish Proverb [19287]
What can you do with a good cow that
gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over?
~ Jewish Proverb [19287]
What goes up must come down.
~ English Proverb, American [19283]
What goes up must come down.
~ English Proverb, American [19283]
This proverb serves as the opening line, and recurring theme in Blood, Sweat and Tear's 1968 classic, Spinning Wheels:The band's name came from a variation of the famous phrase, "blood, toil, tears and sweat," which was originally spoken by Giuseepe Garibaldi in Rome in 1849. Theordore Roosevelt repeated it in a speech in 1897. But it was Winston Churchill, at the start of World War II, who made the words famous.
"I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
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