Ο ΑΣΠΡΟΣ ΣΚΥΛΟΣ ΛΕΕΙ:

'Ενας παλιάτσος περπατά δίπλα σε μια σειρά σταθμευμένα τάνκς.  Εκλογές τώρα;

'The degree of (economic) knowledge'

''It will be objected that I am trying to base a system on will, not on intellect. And that is one of the main reasons for my writing this treatise.

   The criminal classes have no intellectual interests. In proportion as people without intellectual interests they approach the criminal classes, and approach criminal psychology.

   No economic system is worth a hoot without 'good will'. No intellectual system of economics will function unless people are prepared to act on understanding.

   People indifferent to the definition 'le droit de faire tout ce qui ne nuit pas aux autres' will DO anything about their economic knowledge, whatever be 'the degree of that knowledge.'

Ezra Pound, from ''ABC of Economics"

An Error

Ενίοτε πίστευα, ότι η Εύα έμεινε μόνη της στόν Παράδεισο και ότι έδιωξε τον Αδάμ εκ παραδρομής!

(Επίσης, καλή ανάπαυση Ξένια)

ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΜΟΝΑΧΟ ΡΙΝΖΑΪ

Ο φόβος της δικής μου ιστορίας,

ο άνθρωπος

που μπαινοβγαίνει

με αθέλητη όρμή

ανάμεσα σε ημερομηνίες,

με εμμονές αδιάφορες

σε δίκη κοινής γνώμης,

χωρίς μιλιά ως όνειρο

χωρίς σώμα ως βάρος,

ο ανθρωπος αυτός δίχως σπίτι.  

The Den of Ten

Ανεβαίνω μια σκάλα, στεκόμαι στα μέσα και με χαιρετάω. Και εσύ είσαι άγνωστος κι εγώ είμαι ο κύριος Χιουζ παντού.

THE SUDDEN SCHOOL AND THE GRADUAL SCHOOL

At  that time the two schools, that of Hui-Neng of the South and Shen-hsiu of the North, flourished side by side. As the two schools were distinguished from each other by the names Sudden (the South) and Gradual (the North), the question of which sect

they should follow baffled certain scholars of the time.

 Seeing this the patriarch addressed the assembly as follows:

    '' So far as the dharma is concerned, there can be one school. If a distinction exists, it exists in the fact of the founder of one school is a northern man, while the other is a southerner. While there is only one dharma, some disciples realize it more quickly than others. The reason why the names Sudden and Gradual are given is that some disciples are superior to others in mental dispositions. So far as the dharma is concerned, the distinction of sudden and gradual does not exist.''

 

(The Sutra of Hui-Neng)