To understand Buddha, forget Buddhism.

from "the innumerable sayings of tao jones"

"I have found that there is no attitude so bizarre that one will not encounter it sooner or later if one travels far enough." Gore Vidal, Creation.

"I'm an old man. Old men are unlike young men in one important respect: they are not healthy. I am going to die soon. So let's worry about something more important." (attributed to Leo Tolstoy, The Last Station, by Jay Parini)

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inscription inside tea bottle cap.

if the mind
is a garden -
what are you planting?


ji bo, 2011

grasshopper flies
away
from my shadow.



ji bo, 2011

"Things are as they are.
Looking out into the universe at night,
we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars,
nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

Alan Watts