"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

18 March 2012

Forgetting.

van Gogh, The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise (detail), 1890


Gâthâ of enlightenment

Forgetting all knowledge at one stroke,
I do not need cultivation anymore.
Activity expressing the ancient road,
I don't fall into passivity.
Everywhere trackless,
conduct beyond sound and form:
the adepts in all places
call this the supreme state.


- Hsiang-yen Chih-hsien

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