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Craig is Currently Reading

Craig is currently reading

Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

by Shozan Jack Haubner

bookshelves: buddhism, biography, currently-reading

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progress: — May 14, 2013 05:41PM

May 14, 2013 05:36PM

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Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji

by Hōsekī Schīnīchī Hisamatsu

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"I've set this aside while I read Genjokoan. Great teishos in the Rinzai tradition. Great teachings, but one Zen book at a time is plenty." — May 13, 2013 12:32AM

Jun 20, 2014 12:01PM

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Ecology of the Planted Aquarium

by Diana Walstad

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Apr 13, 2018 04:24PM

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Craig’s Quotes

“Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: explanation, meaning, symbiosis, understanding

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“For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

tags: explanation, understand

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“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

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“You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the only consolation when you confess to this flaw is that you are seeking to arrive at poetic truth, which can be reached only through fabrication, imagination, stylization. What I'm striving for is authenticity; none of it is real.”
― W.G. Sebald

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