“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
— Rumi
Mandala #441 – Swainsley Tunnel
Tunnel
Mandala #320 – Adit
Everyone knows decline,
Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao
But few discern its border.
Mandala #319 – Bomb Store
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Huangbo Xiyun
Mandala #301 – Dinas Railway Tunnel III
My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitless of my soul.
Jim Carrey
Mandala #300 – Dinas Railway Tunnel II
When we analyze our experience, we have ideas of time and space, big or small, heavy or light. A scale of some kind is necessary, and with various scales in our mind, we experience things. Still the thing itself has no scale. That is something we add to reality. Because we always use a scale and depend on it so much, we think the scale really exists. But it doesn’t exist.
Shunryu Suzuki
Mandala #299 – Dinas Railway Tunnel I
Round or square, big or small don’t belong to reality, but are simply ideas.
Shunryu Suzuki
Mandala #262 – Tunnel III
The Tao gave birth to one
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 42
One gave birth to two
Two gave birth to three
And three begat the 10,000 things
Mandala #261 – Tunnel II
The way of the Tao is to yield
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 40
Mandala #260 – Tunnel I
One who understands others has knowledge
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 33
One who understands himself has wisdom
Mandala Vihara 