“…Slowly, what he respected before he now despises, and in this change he uses words as an implacable weapon. Human shall now mean not-animal, the female shall become a servant, belonging to man. Man shall be the entire species, of mother and father, only father shall rule, while the daughter shall not share in the [...]
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again.
So why bother in the first place?
Just this: What is above knows what is below,
But, what is below does not know what is above.
One climbs, one sees.
One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.
There is an art of conducting oneself in [...]
The first speaker hides the mountain of his own faults;
his opponent searches for the other’s faults with a needle.
Having seen them take turns defeating each other,
I am uncomfortable about positing the validity of convention”.
Gedun Chopel, 1903-1951, Tibet)
After eating the mountain, hunger is not satiated.
After drinking the ocean, thirst is not quenched.”
- Tibetan proverb
Any student who enjoys Boabom, who tries to understand its peculiar Ways, especially Logak, will find this poem by Lao-Tzu enriched by the perspective of the Art.
Stretching a bow or filling a teacup, it is the same:
For best results, yield.
Over-harden a blade and it will soon break;
Stuff a house full of riches and it is not safe;
Define [...]
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there — lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit [...]
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
-George Bernard Shaw
Every woman and man is a doctor and a builder to heal and shelter themselves”
- Nader Khalili
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It has been several years now since I wrote the book Bamso: The Art of Dreams. This December it will be published in English for all to read, and it seems like only yesterday that I sat, finishing the final details, wondering if I had written everything right. Those days were intense, full of adventures [...]
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Goethe
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
Thomas Carlyle, essayist [...]
It’s not that I’m so smart,
it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ”
Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
ps: in other words, if you really want to improve your Boabom…
This positive energy is transmitted… If you achieve this positive aura of the Art and know how to conduct it, the people who surround you will thank you. Somehow you will be changing the world. As a matter of fact, if you have a positive change, you evolve, and with this change alone it is [...]
This is the ancestral movement of life,
and they are the beings who seek its Path…”
Asanaro, The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani
The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.”
Asanaro, The Secret Art of Seamm-Jasani
On tiptoe,
one is not steady;
Stretching legs
cannot keep pace.
The intent to shine
dulls the gleam;
Claims of greatness
merely diminish.
Great presumption
makes nothing grow,
And smugness
simply fades away.
To find harmony with yourself,
it is a waste to carry
these things with you…
Tear them up,
throw them away,
go beyond…