At the House of Rehab and Mental Savagery Outpost

Above above we sink to the depth of all we go, again again we revisit the places that we go.

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

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We say that the highest and the lowest come to resemble each other… … when one practices discipline and moves from the beginners territory to immovable wisdom, he makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginning, the abiding place. … In this one sees the sense of the beginning being the same as the end… … The ignorance and afflictions of the beginning, abiding place and the immovable wisdom that comes later to become one. If you train in technique, but only fill your breast with principle, your body and your hands will not function. Training in technique, if put into terms of your own martial art, is in the training that if practiced over and over again makes the five body postures one. Even though you know the principle, you must make yourself perfectly free in the use of the technique. And even though you may wield the sword that you carry with you well, if you are unclear on the deepest aspects of principle, you will likely fall short of proficiency. Technique and principle are just like two wheels of a cart. – Takuan SōHō