This is very similar to the quote regarding being one with the ten thousand things. Looking within, and looking without, it is the same. Zooming in and zooming out, we see phenomena, chaos becomes ordered and mathematical, math becomes chaos. It is the same, it is not two different things, it is more like two sides to the same thing.
Author: Zen Cat
Heaven and Earth and I Are of the Same Root
Have you ever heard that a smile is contagious? Try it today, smile at people you know, and at strangers. Do not stare, do not give them a creepy stalker smile, just a nice, brief, pleasant, natural smile, and even if they don’t smile back, they will remember. They will likely be in a better mood, smile at others, and it will affect a great many people.
An Autumn Night – Don’t Think
We can learn to listen to our bodies, which will help our minds, and vice versa. What we do to one thing affects another. This is why our lives all matter, as what we do in life affects others, no matter if we understand that or not.
Nothing In The Cry of Cicadas
We can all learn something from that. Knowing that we will all die, we should not focus on that. We should accept death as inevitable, and focus on living, here and now.
For Those Who Have Grown Weary of Children
Everything is new to a child, they look at everything with amazement and joy. They do not take things for granted, nor do they get jaded and depressed about the trite world they think they live in.