Thoreau’s Journal: 08-May-1857
“Within a week I have had made a pair of corduroy pants, which cost when done $1.60. They are of that peculiar clay-color, reflecting the light from portions of their surface. They have this advantage, that, beside being very strong, they will look about as well three months hence as now,—or as ill, some would say. Most of my friends are disturbed by my wearing them. I can get four or five pairs for what one ordinary pair would cost in Boston, and each of the former will last two or three times as long under the same circumstances. The tailor said that the stuff was not made in this country; that it was worn by the Irish at home, and now they would not look at it, but others would not wear it, durable and cheap as it is, because it is worn by the Irish. Moreover I like the color on other accounts. Anything but black clothes.”
The true poet will ever live aloof from society, wild to it, as the finest singer is the wood thrush, a forest bird.
- Thoreau
The figure crouching on a rock beneath a waterfall is Mongaku (1139-1203), who was born into the Watanabe military clan and initially named EndoMorito. However when he was in his late teens, he decided to become a Buddhist monk and changed his name to Mongaku. To test his spiritual sincerity andphysical endurance, he traveled in the middle of winter to the Province of Ki where he planned to practices austerities by standing in the icy cold NachiWaterfalls for 21 days while reciting 300,000 incantations to the deity Fudo Myoo. After 4 days Mongaku collapsed and was carried downstream, where he was rescued and revived by one of the messengers of Fudo. Immediately Mongaku went back to the falls, determined to complete all 21 days, but after just3 days he again lost consciousness in the freezing waters. This time two divine boys, Kongara and Seitaku, seen in the print, helped him up and warmed thewaters so that he could complete the three weeks of austerities. Thereafter Mongaku was thought to have special powers given by Fudo. Several yearslater he would befriend Minamoto Yoritomo and help the Genji rise to power.
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Love is the only reality, and it is not mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality.
Michael Ellner (via elige)
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Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening; reminiscences of our sanest hours? The voice of nature is always encouraging.
-Thoreau’s Journal: 18-Mar-1858
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