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Misty rain on Mount Lu,
And waves surging on the river Che;
When you have not been there,
Many a regret surely you have;
But once there and homeward you wend,
How matter of fact things look!
Misty rain on Mount Lu,
And waves surging on the river Che.
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Jene, die reden, wissen nicht;
Jene, die wissen, reden nicht.
Das erklärt uns Lao Tzu.
Sollen wir glauben, daß er selbst
einer war, der wußte;
Wie cann es dann sein, daß er schrieb
nicht weniger als fünfmal tausend Worte?
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THE MONKEY'S PAW                                


                                                               "Be careful what you wish for,
                                                                            you may receive it".
                                                                                     (Anonymous)


   This scary story is about a monkey's paw which has magical powers.
   It gives to its owner three wishes.
   The monkey's paw is given to a family of three, father, mother, and son.
   They wish for some money, and the next day an employee of the company
   where the son is working arrives at the family's residence and tells the
   parents that their son has died in an accident and they will receive a 
   monetary compensation, the exact amount they wished for.
   About a week later, the mother wishes that their son would return home alive.
   When knocking is heard at the door, the father realizes what has happened
   and before the mother can open the door, the father uses the last wish.
   The knocking stops and when the door is opened, no one is there.

                                                   W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw -

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Die Sonn bewegt das All, läßt alle Sterne tanzen.
Wirst du nicht auch bewegt; gehörst du nicht zum Ganzen.

                                                                                         Angelus Silesius
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So göttlich ist die Welt eingerichtet,
daß jeder an seiner Stelle, an seinem Ort,
zu seiner Zeit alles übrige gleichwägt.
                                                                    Goethe
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We've all got to be as we were made -
as the dice fall out of the cup.


                                                      Thornton Wilder -The Eighth Day -
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Ich sammle Chrysanthemen an der Osthecke,
Schau still hinüber zu den Südbergen.
Die Bergluft frisch zur Abenddämmerung,
Paarweise kehren Vögel heim ins Nest.
In all diesen Dingen liegt tiefe Bedeutung
Will ich sie aussprechen, schwinden mir die Worte.
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The Chinese world-view depended upon a totally different
line of thought - than the West's view of a mechanical
universe externally ruled by a political Monarch and Creator.
The harmonious cooperation of all beings arose,
not from the orders of a superior
authority external to themselves ("God"),
but from the fact that they were all parts in a hierarchy
of wholes forming a cosmic pattern,
and what they obeyed were the internal dictates
of their own natures.
Modern science an the philosophy of organism
with its integrative levels,
have come back to this wisdom,
fortified by new understanding of cosmic,
biological and social evolution.


                                                           Joseph Needham
                                                           - Science and Civilization in China -
                                                             vol. 2, p. 582.
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Vor meinem Bett glänzt helles Mondlicht -
Wie, sollte das shon Rauhreif sein?
Ich heb den Kopf, schau auf zum vollen Mond,
Senke den Kopf und denk an mein Zuhause.
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Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know
is constructed in order to see itself.
But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up
into at least one state which sees,
and at least one other state which is seen.


                                                            G. Spencer Brown
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Gegen mittag, wenn die Wolken duftig sind,
und der Wind weht sanft,
Dann schlendre ich am Fluß entlang,
vorbei an Weiden und blühenden Bäumen.
Die Menschen dieser Tage können meine Freude nicht verstehen.  
Sie werden sagen, daß ich den Tag verbummele wie ein junger Taugenichts.
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Days are sieves to filter spirit,
reveal impurities, and too,
show the light of some who throw
their own shining into the universe.
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Worte vermitteln Gedanken.
Wenn die Gedanken aufgenommen sind,
verstummen die Worte...
Nur jene, die den Fisch nehmen und das Netz
vergessen können,
sind Wert das Tao zu suchen.


                                                            Tao-sheng (etwa 360-434)
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Das Fischnetz ist da, um Fische zu fangen;
wir wollen die Fische behalten und das Netz vergessen.
Die Schlinge ist da, um Kaninchen zu fangen;
wir wollen das Kaninchen behalten und die Schlinge vergessen.
Vorte sind da, um Gedanken zu vermitteln;
wir wollen die Gedanken behalten und die Worte vergessen.


                                                        Chuang Tzu
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Beim Wohnen schätzt man den geeigneten Platz.
Am Geist schätzt man die Tiefe.
Am Freund schätzt man die Freundlichkeit.
Am Worten schätzt man die Ehrlichkeit.
An der Regierung schätzt man die Ordnung.
Bei Geschäften schätzt man die Fähigkeit.
Beim Handeln schätzt man die Zeitgerechtheit.


                                                              Lao Tzu
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In this moment there is nothing which comes to be.
In this moment there is nothing which ceases to be.
Thus there is no birth-and-death to be brought to an end.
Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment,
and herein is eternal delight.
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Wenn wir nur das Gesicht des Ostwindes erkennen,
Ist jede der tausend Blumen - rot oder violet - der Frühling.


                                                              Chu Hsi
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Vergebens plagte ich mich mit den Drei Geschichtsbüchern
Vertan die Zeit des Brütens über den Fünf Klassikern
Ich werde bis ins Alter gelbe Zensuslisten prüfen
Und wie gehabt an weißen Steuerformularen sitzen
Befrag ich das I Ching kündet es Schwierigkeiten
Mein Leben ist beherrscht von einem schlechten Stern
Dem Baum am Flußufer werde ich niemals gleichen
Der Jahr für Jahr aufs neue grünt


                                                              Han Shan
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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
                                   signyfing nothing.
                             
                                                     W. Shakespeare - Macbeth -
                                      
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Es ist... nicht erstaunlich, wenn das religiöse Bedürfnis der
gläubige Sinn und die philosophische Speculation des gebildeten Europäers sich
von den Symbolen des Ostens... angezogen fühlen,
wie einstmals das Gemüt und der Geist des antiken Menschen
von den christlichen Ideen erfaßt wurden.

                                                        C. G. Jung
                            - Über die Archetypen des kollektiven Unbewußten -
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I spin beneath my pyramid of night,
Which points into the heavens, - dreaming delight,
Murmuring victorious joy in my enchanted sleep;
As a youth lulled in love-dreams faintly sighing,
Under the shadow of his beauty lying,
Which round his rest a watchof light and warmth doth keep.

                                                        P. B. Shelley
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Nicht am traurigen Ufer des Styx,
nicht in fernen Schein Elyseeischer Felder
begegnen wir unter den Toten denen, die uns gelehrt...
Aber wir begegnen ihnen wieder und wieder
am Treffpunkt der Toten -
auf den Lippen der Lebender.

                                                                    Samuel Butler
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Die Leute wissen, geschriebene Bücher zu lesen -
die ungeschriebenen wissen sie nicht zu lesen;
sie können die Ch'in mit Saiten spielen -
die saitenlose Ch'in wissen sie nicht zu spielen.
Wer sich derart mit der Erscheinung statt mit dem Wesen beschäftigt,
wie könnte der verstehen, was Musik und Dichtung sind!


                                                        Ts'ai Ken T'an
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Ye Presences of Nature in the sky
And on the Earth! Ye Visions of the hills!
And Souls of lonely places! can I think
A vulgar hope was yours when je employed
Such ministry, when je through many a year
Haunting me thus among my boyish sports,
On caves and trees, upon the woods and hills,
Impressed upon all forms the characters
Of danger or desire; and thus did make
The surface of the universal earth
With triumph and delight, with hope and fear,
Work like a sea?...


                                                        W. Wordsworth
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Ein Gast bekrittelte den Meister vom Han Shan:
In deinen Versen fehlen die Rechten Grundsätze
Las ich doch bei den Weisen des Altertums
Daß sie sich ihrer Armut niemals schämten -
Ich mußte über seine Worte lachen:
Geschwollene Reden führen ist wohl leicht
Doch möcht ich dich in meiner heutgen Lage sehn
Wie wichtig dann die Groschen für dich wären


                                                                  Han Shan
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.


                                                            W. Wordsworth
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Es war einmal ein Garten. In ihm lebten viele hundert Spezies...
In diesem Garten waren zwei Anthropoiden,
die intelligenter waren als die anderen Tiere.
An einem Bäume hing ganz weit oben eine Frucht...
Also fingen sie an nachzudenken. Das war der Fehler...
zweckgerichtet zu denken.
Bald suchte sich der männliche Affe, dessen name Adam war,
eine leere Kiste, stellte sie unter den Baum... holte sich eine weitere Kiste
und stellte sie auf die erste.
Dann kletterte er auf die beiden Kisten und bekam schließlich diesen Apfel.
Adam und Eva wurden fast trunken vor Aufregung.
Das war der richtige Weg.
Mache einen Plan, ABC, und du erhältst D.
Danach fingen sie an, sich darauf zu spezialisieren,
Dinge planmäßig anzugehen.
Im Endeffekt vertrieben sie damit aus dem Garten das Konzept ihrer eigenen
insgesamt systemischen Natur und der insgesamt systemischen Natur des Gartens..
sehr bald verschwand die Ackerkrume.
Danach wurden mehrere Spezies von Pflanzen zu "Unkraut"
und einige Tiere zu "Schädlingen";
und Adam merkte, daß die Gärtnerei sehr viel schwerere Arbeit war.
Er mußte sein Brot im Schweiße seines Angesichts verdienen und er sagte:
"Es ist ein rachsüchtiger Gott. Ich hätte diesen Apfel niemals essen dürfen".
Eva... hörte sogar eine Stimme sagen:
"Unter Mühen sollst du Kinder gebären".


                                             Gregory Bateson - Ökologie des Geistes -

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A certain king in India, who was of a very realistic and logical mind,
went to Shankara to receive instructions as to the nature of the Absolute.
When Shankara taught him to regard all of his kingly wealth
and power as no more than mere phenomenal illusions arising out of
the absolute Self which is the ground of all things,
the king was incredulous.
And when he was told that the one and only Self appeared multiple
only because of the dualisms of his ignorance,
the king straightaway decided to put Shankara to a test and determine
if the sage really felt this existence was no different from a dream.
The following day, as Shankara was approaching the palace to deliver
his next lecture to the king, a huge and heat-maddened elephant
   was deliberately turned loose and aimed in Shankara's direction.
As soon as the sage saw the elephant charging, he turned and fled in
an apparently very cowardly fashion,
and as the animal nearly reached him, he disappeared from sight.
When the king found him, he was perched at the top of a lofty palm tree,
which he had ascended with remarkable dexterity.
The elephant was caught and caged, and the famous Shankara,
perspiration pouring off him, came before his student.
The king naturally apologized for such an unfortunate and nearly
fatal accident.
Then, with a smile breaking across his face, but pretending great
seriousness, he asked why the venerable sage had resorted to
physical flight, since surely he was aware that the elephant was
of a purely illusory character.
Shankara replied, "Indeed, in highest truth, the elephant is non-real
and illusory. Nevertheless, you and I are as non-real as that elephant.
Only your ignorance, clouding the truth with this spectacle of non-real
phenomenality, made your Highness see illusory me go up a non-real tree".


  The point is that the non-dual awareness of Self is not a luminous mush
  of undifferentiated jelly, so that the universe melts down into one huge
  monistic lump of clay.
  Indeed, the universe exists exactly as we perceive it (where sense and
  sensibility are still non-dual), but not necessarily as we name and divide
  it into separate things extended in space and time.
  "Seeing! Seeing! Seeing!" as Rumi declared.
  And it is this "Seeing - before we divide it into seer and seen - this non-dual
  "apperception" that James declares is reality itself - it is THIS that we are
  to discover.
  ... Actually there is no merging with the Center. We are always merged
  with the Center. It is rather an understanding of this eternal union now,
  and not a manufacture of it tomorrow.

                               Ken Wilber - THE SPECTRUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS -

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Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always -
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything).

                                               T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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He who cannot escape from the standpoint
of temporal succession so as to see all
things in their simultaneity is incapable of the
least conception of the metaphysical order.

                                                                René Guénon



  
   







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