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Full Idea
Simply by looking into blue sky beyond clouds - the serenity.
Gist of Idea
The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds
Source
Anon (Cent) (Centring [c.500 BCE], 59)
Book Ref
'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones', ed/tr. Reps,Paul [Penguin 1971], p.158
A Reaction
Philip Larkin finds the same experience looking through high windows. If we articulate the experience, it seems to combine humility and detachment. The sky makes us insignificant, but the mind can project into the sky.
| 8234 | Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8227 | Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8228 | Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8229 | The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8231 | Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8232 | Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)] |