SITE IS IN MAINTENANCE MODE
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
THE UNKNOWN . . . .
WHAT YOU THINK
DOES NOT EXIST
OUTSIDE OF YOUR MIND
Life and death are nothing but the mind.
Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind.
Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind.
The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind.
The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind.
Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253)
THERE IS MUCH
THAT THERE IS
NO WAY OF
KNOWING.
Enlightenment, true understanding, cannot be conveyed by words. The keys to wisdom cannot be delivered through the mind by words or understood by conscious thought; whatever is said about it will be misunderstood. Only some hints, some indications, some gestures can be communicated by words.
Osho (1931 – 1990)
A world of fact lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 -1895)
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
Silence is the true upadesa [i.e., a teaching or guidance provided by a wise master or sage.] It is the perfect upadesa. It is suited only for the most advanced seeker. The others are unable to draw full inspiration from it. Therefore, they require words to explain the truth. But truth is beyond words; it does not admit of explanation. All that is possible is to indicate it.
Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950)
There is nothing in words; believe what is before your eyes.
Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE)
Supreme Zen, at the highest reaches, does not belong to a dimension that human understanding of any kind can grasp or perceive.
Zen Master Hakuin (1686 – 1768)
A world of fact lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 -1895)
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
Silence is the true upadesa [i.e., teaching or guidance provided by a wise master or sage]. It is the perfect upadesa. It is suited only for the most advanced seeker. The others are unable to draw full inspiration from it. Therefore, they require words to explain the truth. But truth is beyond words; it does not admit of explanation. All that is possible is to indicate it.
Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950)
There is nothing in words; believe what is before your eyes.
Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE)
Supreme Zen, at the highest reaches, does not belong to a dimension that human understanding of any kind can grasp or perceive.
Zen Master Hakuin (1686 – 1768)
A world of fact lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 -1895)
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
Silence is the true upadesa [i.e., teaching or guidance provided by a wise master or sage]. It is the perfect upadesa. It is suited only for the most advanced seeker. The others are unable to draw full inspiration from it. Therefore, they require words to explain the truth. But truth is beyond words; it does not admit of explanation. All that is possible is to indicate it.
Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950)
There is nothing in words; believe what is before your eyes.
Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE)
Supreme Zen, at the highest reaches, does not belong to a dimension that human understanding of any kind can grasp or perceive.
Zen Master Hakuin (1686 – 1768)
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
The youth, when Nature and Art attract him, thinks that with a vigorous effort he can soon penetrate into the innermost sanctuary; the man, after long wanderings, finds himself still in the outer court.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
For the contemporaries and pupils of Plato his own saying proved true: “It is a hard task to find the maker and father of this universe; and, if we had found him, it would be impossible to declare him to all men.” In a letter written near the end of his life Plato confesses that the same had proved true for himself. He speaks as if there were moments when his own mind, the greatest mind ever given to philosophy, could attain, or almost attain, to a vision of the world as it is ordered in every part by Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. But he expressly declares that such a vision is incommunicable, and that he had never even tried to communicate it in writing or in speech.
Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874 – 1943)
The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. (Is not this the reason why those who have found after a long period of doubt that the sense of life became clear to them have then been unable to say what constituted that sense?)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
. . . the whole life of activity and change is inwardly impenetrable to conceptual treatment, . . . it opens itself only to sympathetic apprehension at the hands of immediate feeling.
Henri-Louis Bergson (1859 – 1941)
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality,
to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it,
the further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking,
and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Seng-ts’an (c. 600)
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
Dōgen Zenji (1200 – 1253)
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening.
Hakuin Ekaku (1686 – 1769)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
Meaning, other than practical, there is for us none.
William James (1842 – 1910)
What can be said at all can be said clearly and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
What exists has no meaning.
What happens has no meaning.
Meaning is a mental construct,
a fiction of human imagination.
Klar Himmel (1942 – )
Questions about what something means can never be answered, as “meaning” is not real. Meaning does not exist in the physical world outside of the mind. Meaning is comprised of words, language, thought and logic, all of which are mental constructs. Everything that exists outside of the mind and whatever it all does, does not “mean” anything at all; not anything other than whatever one may choose to think that it means.
Ari Ben Moshe (c.913 – 1012)
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)
Life is both nonsensical and significant. And when we do not laugh about one aspect and speculate about the other, life is exceedingly banal, and everything is of the smallest proportions; there is then only a tiny sense and a tiny nonsense. In the very first place, nothing signifies anything; for when as yet there were no thinking beings, no one was there to interpret manifestations. It is only for him who does not understand that things must be interpreted. Only the ununderstandable has significance. Man has awakened in a world that he does not understand, and this is why he tries to interpret it. For there is a cosmos in all chaos, secret order in all disorder, unfailing law in all contingency.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961)
THINGS ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK
YOUR PERCEPTIONS OF THINGS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD
THAT YOU EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR FIVE SENSES
ARE MENTAL CONSTRUCTS THAT YOU CREATE;
AND ARE NOT THE THINGS THAT EXIST
IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE
OF YOUR MIND.