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// Inner Light - George Harrison
Without going out of my door,
I can know all things on earth
without looking out of my window,
I can know the ways of heaven.
The farther one travels
the less one knows
the less one really knows.
Arrive without travelling,
See all without looking,
Do all without doing. //
戸を出でずして天下を知り、窓を窺わずして天道を見る。
其の出づること彌々遠ければ、其の知ること彌々少し。
是を以て聖人は行かずして知り、見ずして名かに、為さずして成る。
- 『老子道徳経』
Happiness is a chemical
OPINION: Ruth Ostrow | September 27, 2008
More real and more sustainable is contentment. As one contented person told me: “I find pleasure in simple things nowadays. My life isn’t thrilling, but it’s deeply satisfying.” Perhaps as a species we need the quest for the Holy Grail to keep us performing. But for me and many other recovering happiness junkies, the thing we most crave now is an end to the craving. Contentment is the road home.
"I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town." - Pensées (1670), Blaise Pascal
人生、一分を減省すれば、すなわち一分を超脱す。
もし交遊減ずれば、すなわち紛擾を免る。
言語減ずれば、すなわち愆尤寡なし。
思慮減ずれば、すなわち精神耗せず。
聡明減ずれば、すなわち混沌完うすべし。
かの日に減ずるを求めずして、日に増すを求むるは、真にこの生を桎梏するかな。
- 『菜根譚』
学を為せば日に益し、道を為せば日に損す。
之を損し又た損して、以って無為に至る。
無為にして為さざる無し。天下を取るは常に無事を以てす。
- 『老子道徳経』
How to ... be content
Saturday September 27 2008
Happiness is a fine marmalade but contentment is a citrus grove. Children are naturally content because they don't know any different. It's the knowledge of difference that breeds discontent and it's when you finally realise that difference makes no difference that you can reclaim contentment. ...It may sound dull, but being content is a profoundly radical position. It means you have no outstanding needs that other people, events or corporations can satisfy. You can't be manipulated, corrupted, conned, heartbroken or sold unnecessary insurance policies. ...Being happy with your lot seems to be the essence of contentment. ...Restless discontent is often held up as the great wellspring of personal and artistic progress. ... It's worth remembering your lot can quite easily be an epic struggle against overwhelming odds but, even if it is, you can still be content with it.
春、百花あり。秋、月あり。
夏、涼風あり。冬、雪あり。
もし閑事の心頭に挂ることなくんば、
すなわち是れ人間の好時節。
- 『無門關』
「平常心是道」（へいじょうしんこれどう）:
若し直ちに其の道を会せんと欲すれば、平常心是れ道たり。
何をか平常心と謂わん。
造作なく、是非なく、取捨なく、断常なく、凡なく聖なきなり。
維摩経に云う、凡夫行に非ず、聖賢行に非ず、是れ菩薩行なり、
と。只だ如今の行住坐臥、応機接物、尽く是れ道たり。
- 馬祖道一禅師 (709年 - 788年)
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