If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren’t afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can’t achieve.
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place.
When you handle the master carpenter’s tools,
chances are that you’ll cut your hand.
For life to those who have the ears to hear is a symphony; but very, very rare indeed is the human who hears the music.
WOOOOOOOOO HAPPY HALLOWEEN, INTERNET!
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The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.
He knows that he is going to die,
and he has nothing left to hold on to:
no illusions in his mind,
no resistances in his body.
He doesn’t think about his actions;
they flow from the core of his being.
He holds nothing back from life;
therefore he is ready for death,
as a man is ready for sleep
after a good day’s work.
When we enter the earth;
all of the times we’ve made love will be the rising and parading champagne colossus bloom of flowers,
and after when we wanted sweet sleep
we became
the dead leaves of trees,
fine
with being crushed by new lovers’ shoes,
ready to return
together
into nothing.
