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The station, the whistle, even the grating voice on the loudspeaker that echoed in the early dawn air, all reiterated a single feeling, reinforced it, and spread a dazzling, lyrical prospect before my eyes. The morning sun cut the great platform into sections. The sound of shoes running along the platform, the persistent, monotonous ringing of the station bell, the sound of a wooden clog splitting, ...
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Fariha
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Yes, this was really the coast of the Sea of Japan! Here was the source of all my unhappiness, of all my gloomy thoughts, the origin of all my ugliness and all my strength. It was a wild sea. The waves surged forward in an almost continuous mass, hardly letting one see the smooth, gray gulfs that lay between one wave and the next. Piled up over the open sea, the great cumuli of clouds revealed a heaviness...
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Fariha
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At that moment some sort of meaning flashed through my mind. But no sooner was I aware of this flash than it disappeared and I lost the meaning. I stood there for a while, but the icy wind that blew against my body robbed me of all thought. I began walking into the wind. The meager fields merged into stony, barren land. The grass was withered; the only unwithered green was that of some mosslike weeds ...
— 6 hours, 32 min ago
Fariha
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I want to get away from all my surroundings.From the smell of powerlessness that everyone round me gives off so strongly.The Superior is powerless.Terribly powerless.I’ve understood that,too.”
You want to get away from the Golden Temple also?”
“Yes indeed!From the Golden Temple also.”
“Is even the Golden Temple powerless?”
“No,the Goiden Temple certainly isn’t powerless!lt's the root of everyone else’s powerlessness.
— 6 hours, 40 min ago
You want to get away from the Golden Temple also?”
“Yes indeed!From the Golden Temple also.”
“Is even the Golden Temple powerless?”
“No,the Goiden Temple certainly isn’t powerless!lt's the root of everyone else’s powerlessness.
Fariha
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In this vast, vague world of objects the bee and the summer chrysanthemum only remained to be “put in order,” as it were. The flying of the bee and the shaking of the flower did not differ in the slightest from the rustling of the wind. In this still, frozen world everything was on an equal footing, and that form which had emitted so powerful a charm was extinct.
— Mar 23, 2026 09:05AM
Fariha
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In my experience, therefore there was nothing in the nature of accumulation. There was no thickness of the kind that could form a mountain by piling one stratum upon another. Yet one thing I knew was that among all these experiences certain small elements-elements that were not swallowed up in the dark sea of time, elements that did not subside into meaningless and interminable repetition—would be linked together...
— Mar 23, 2026 08:57AM
Fariha
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It was inevitable that this woman should have changed, just as the features of this earth are changed by the time that the light from a distant star has finally reached it. If at the time when I saw her from the gate of the Nanzen Temple she and I had been joined in anticipation of today’s meeting, such changes as had taken place in her since then could be effaced; with only a few small alterations,
— Mar 23, 2026 08:48AM
Fariha
is on page 169 of 247
One small decision followed another, and the effects of contrast and symmetry converged with infallible artistry. The flowers and leaves, which had formerly existed as they were,, had now been transformed into flowers and leaves as they ought to be. The cattails and the irises were no longer individual, anonymous plants belonging to their respective species, but had become terse, direct manifestations
— Mar 23, 2026 08:42AM
Fariha
is on page 163 of 247
His likings were limited to things such as music, which vahished instantly, or flower arrangements, which faded in a matter of days; the brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period or time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such shortlived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself.
— Mar 23, 2026 08:37AM
Fariha
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This sense of individuality robbed my life of its symbolism, that is to say, of its power to serve, like Tsurukawa’s, as a metaphor for something outside itself; accordingly, it deprived me of the feelings of life’s extensity and solidarity, and it became the source of that sense of solitude which pursued me indefinitely. It was strange, I did not even have any feeling of solidarity with nothingness.
— Mar 19, 2026 09:22AM
Fariha
is on page 155 of 247
It is said that the essence of Zen is the absence of all particularities, and that the real power to see consists in the knowledge that one’s own heart possesses neither form nor feature. Yet the power to see, which is capable of properly envisaging the absence of feature, must be exceedingly keen in resisting the charm of formal appearances.
— Mar 19, 2026 09:18AM
Every single fragment of the station, however minute it might be, was focused on my dominant feeling of separation and departure. Courteously and with the utmost serenity, the platform began to move away from me. I could feel it. Yes, I could feel how that expressionless concrete surface was illumined by the object that moved away from it, that separated, that left.