the mirror smiles

If we’re a free person, we aren’t conditioned by things around us. We just smile to them and we make our path. Our surroundings are like a mirror. If we smile, the mirror smiles. If we cry, the mirror cries. If we’re angry then the situation becomes angry. But even if the situation looks angry, if we’re able to smile, then the surroundings smile with us. So the surroundings are coming from our mind.



Thich Nhat Hanh, Nothing to do, Nowhere to go - Waking up to who you are, Parallax Press, 2007



photo: " uomo libero, amerai sempre il mare; è il tuo specchio "©Enzo Rubino; if you'd like to see more from this photographer please refer to:
http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/Enzo%20Rubino

mirror mind

The perfect man uses his mind

as a mirror.

It grasps nothing.

It regrets nothing.

It receives but does not keep.


Chuang Tzu


if you would like to read more on Chuang Tzu please refer to

http://www.hermitary.com/articles/china-5.html
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/taoism/chuang.html
http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/cz-list.html


photo: Oslo, Norway, 2006 © zentobe