Magnis magnos clericos non sunt magis magnos sapientes.

by 10k films on June 29th, 2009

‘Them most biggest clerks ain’t the most wisest’

- Rabelais

The Signature – Jacob Boehme

by 10k films on June 4th, 2009

“All whatever is spoken, written, or taught of God, without the knowledge of the signature is dumb and void of understanding; for it proceeds only from an historical conjecture, from the mouth of another, wherein the spirit without knowledge is dumb; but if the spirit opens to him the signature, then he understands the speech of another…

For though I see one to speak, teach, preach, and write of God, and though I hear and read the same, yet this is not sufficient for me to understand him; but if his sound and spirit out of his signature and similitude enter into my own similitude, and imprint his similitude into mine, then I may understand him really and fundamentally, be it either spoken or written, if he has the hammer that can strike my bell.

By this we know, that all human properties proceed from one; that they all have but one only root and mother; otherwise one man could not understand another.

Man has indeed all the forms of all the three worlds lying in him; for he is a complete image of God, or of the Being of all beings.”

Jacob Boehme

the little shadow that runs across the grass…

by 10k films on June 4th, 2009

“What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

- Chief Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot

Abdel Baset Abdel Samad – Qur’an Recitation – Ad-Duha

by 10k films on June 4th, 2009

Dream of the Yellow Millet

by 10k films on June 4th, 2009

The legend has it that one night when Lü Yan (Dongbin) was in Chang’an or Handan (邯鄲 Hándān), he dozed off as his yellow millet was cooking in a hotel. He dreamed that he took the imperial exam and excelled, and thus was awarded a prestigious office and soon promoted to the position of vice minister (侍郎). He then married the daughter of a prosperous household and had a son and a daughter. He was promoted again and again, and finally became the prime minister. However, his success and luck attracted jealousy of others, so he was accused of crimes that caused him to lose his office. His wife then betrayed him, his children were killed by bandits, and he lost all his wealth. As he was dying on the street in the dream, he woke up.

Although in the dream, eighteen years had passed, the whole dream actually happened in the time it took his millet to cook. The characters from his dream were actually played by Zhongli Quan in order to make him realize that one should not put too much importance on transient glory and success. As a result, Lü went with Zhongli to discover and cultivate the Dao/Tao. This dream is known as “Dream of the Yellow Millet” (黃粱夢 Húang Líang Mèng) and is described in a writing compiled by Ma Zhiyuan (馬致遠 Mă Zhìyǔan) in Yuan Dynasty.

The Pavilion of Ancestor Lu Dongin

by 10k films on June 4th, 2009

The sign hanging from the roof of the pavilion says:

The Pavilion of Ancestor Lu Dongin

The cave opens to transmit the Dao for 10,000 generations,

one thousand years,

The mountain remains blue, the water green;

From the four seas and the five continents

guests come and students learn,

The bamboo remains green, the lotus red.

Poem by T’ao Ch’ien

by 10k films on June 4th, 2009

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Great men want the four seas. I’ve only
wanted old age to come unnoticed like

this. My family together in one place,
kids and grandkids looking after each

other still, I linger out mornings over
koto and wine, the winejar never dry.

My clothes a shambles, exhausting every
joy, I sleep late now, and nod off early.

Why live like all those fine men, hearts
stuffed with fire and ice to the end,

their hundred-year return to the grave
nothing but an empty path of ambition?

T’ao Ch’ien