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The Gates of Paradise
A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked: “Is there really a paradise and a hell?”
“Who are you?” inquired Hakuin.
“I am a samurai,” the warrior replied.
“You, a soldier!” exclaimed Hakuin. “What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that of a beggar.”
Nobushige became so angry that he began to draw his sword, but Hakuin continued: “So you have a sword! Your weapon is probably much too dull to cut off my head.”
As Nobushige drew his sword Hakuin remarked: “Here open the gates of hell!”
At these words the samurai, perceiving the master’s discipline, sheathed his sword and bowed.
“Here open the gates of paradise,” said Hakuin.
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What Does it Mean to be Self-taught?
In the end, I think it’s less important that someone be self-taught or
formally educated. The truth is that curiosity is what matters. The
desire to be self-taught is a good one, because it means that you are
actively thinking and motivated to learn. I still hold people who are
self-taught in high regard, because we often assign genius not to people
who have an extraordinary ability to learn but to those who are
incredibly tenacious in their desire to learn.
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Andy Warhol’s autobiography
He said, “If I had only learned this decades earlier, I would have been so much happier. I call it the ‘So what therapy.’
So your mother didn’t love you?
So what.
So you girlfriend won’t fuck you?
So what.
So you’re rich but you’re lonely?
So what.
– Andy Warhol
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. … When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
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One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Alan Watts: The Discipline of Zen (1960)
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Conceptual Art
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“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”
Date Issued: 1980-09-12 Homage to the Square: Glow postage stamp by Josef Albers.
This stamp commemorated American education and the early establishment of the U.S. Department of Education. The design of this stamp is taken from a painting by Josef Albers, a German -born artist who contributed much to modern art through his investigation of color and light perception. Albers came to the United States in 1933 to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He later taught at Yale. The culmination of Albers’ artistic development is seen in his famous Homage to the Square series, on which he worked from 1949 until his death in 1976.
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Snake oil, originally a fraudulent liniment without snake extract, has come to refer to any product with questionable or unverifiable quality or benefit. By extension, a snake oil salesman is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods or who is themselves a fraud, quack, or charlatan.