Quotes About Awareness

1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. It is overfull. No more will go in! Like this cup, Nan-in said, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?

Pues apenas el tiempo se divide en ayer, hoy y mañana, en horas, minutos y segundos, el hombre cesa de ser uno con el tiempo, cesa de coincidir con el fluir de la realidad.

The past reappears because it is a hidden present.

al entrar en ti mismo no sales del mundo

A TODOS, en algún momento, se nos ha revelado nuestra existencia como algo particular, intransferible y precioso. Casi siempre esta revelación se sitúa en la adolescencia. El descubrimiento de nosotros mismos se manifiesta como un sabernos solos; entre el mundo y nosotros se abre una impalpable, transparente muralla: la de nuestra conciencia.

Perhaps to love is to learn to walk through this world. To learn to be silent Like the oak and linden of fable. To learn to see

Light is time reflecting on time.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Reverso y anverso; el enamorado ve y toca una presencia, el místico contempla una aparición.

The unreality of the watched makes the watching real.

Óyeme como quien oye llover, ni atenta ni distraída.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to man, who has 'invented' himself by saying 'no' to nature – consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

Si es real la luz blanca de esta lámpara, real la mano que escribe, ¿son reales los ojos que miran lo escrito?

Quédate siempre detrás del hombre que dispara y delante del hombre que está cagando. Así estás a salvo de las balas y de la mierda.

Los amantes...conocen una realidad oculta. Se trata de un conocimiento no intelectual: el que contempla y conoce no es el ojo del intelecto,... sino el del corazón.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

I will live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

The Scroll Marked V I will live this day as if it is my last.

The Scroll Marked VI Today I will be master of my emotions.

Avoid with fury the killers of time.

Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live," Marcus Aurelius

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

We should not for a moment consider even our best-established knowledge of existence as true. It is awareness only of the colors that our own vision paints on the film of one bubble in one strand of foam on the ocean of being.