On this day, as the world watches your sojourn here, / I ask with simple courtesy, “Have you looked within yourself?” / If you had, then you would know who you are / and that you stand on the shoulders of all your ancestors / who have prepared the path for your journey. / Look within, and then look forward. […]
“People began to prefer umlessness in public speaking and conversation around the same time that they began to value order, organization, planning and efficiency in an increasingly complex and urbanizing society,” he writes.
Old wooden dwelling over a store on Nung An Street, Chungshan district of Taipei.
Forget incense and the lotus position, forget notions of getting rid of thoughts or navel gazing, meditation is, more broadly and more helpfully for most people, getting to know our minds and hearts.
