Friday, August 22, 2008

The Zen of Staring at Scenery

Here are some images from our recent trip to Sylvania, in the Michigan Upper Peninsula.


I like it most when no one comes
Preferring fallen leaves and swirling flowers for company.
-- Ikkyu



Do not follow dusty paths in search of wisdom. If you cannot find the truth where you are, where do you expect to find it?
-- Dogen




Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
-- Melville



What is of all things most yielding
Can overcome that which is most hard.
-- Lao Tse



This is not a face.



A Crazy Cloud, out in the open,
Blown about madly, as wild as they come!
Who knows where this cloud will go, where the wind will still?
-- Ikkyu



I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven
Than I live to Walden even.
-- Thoreau

1 comment:

Kali Fontecchio said...

"Do not follow dusty paths in search of wisdom. If you cannot find the truth where you are, where do you expect to find it?"

That is quite nice, I will contemplate.