Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Gautama BuddhaRead
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that our understanding of reality is not absolute but rather provisional and subject to change.
Gautama Buddha's quote suggests that our perceptions and interpretations of reality are not fixed truths but rather temporary theories or hypotheses that can evolve over time. This perspective encourages openness to new ideas and experiences, reminding us that what we consider to be true may change as we gain more knowledge and insight.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the nature of reality.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
Ireland unfree shall never be at peace
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we’re no different you’re saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilities….
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
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