Spring flowers
autumn moon
summer breezes
winter snow:

With mind uncluttered
·  this is  ·
the finest season!

-Wúmén Huìkāi

Fall is here

Spring flowers, autumn moon; summer breezes, winter snow: With mind uncluttered, this is the finest season.

–Wumen Huikai

 

Autumn is, in some respects, the most interesting season. It is a time of drying, crackling, shedding, of pulling vital juices back into deep roots and preparing for death, deep dormancy, rebirth in situ […]

Summer is here

Spring flowers, autumn moon; summer breezes, winter snow: With mind uncluttered, this is the finest season.

–Wumen Huikai

 

Summer is, in some respects, the most interesting season. Its entrance is “the end of the beginning”—a turning where, just as the sun rests in its ascent and prepares to depart the zenith, the […]

Spring is here

Spring flowers, autumn moon; summer breezes, winter snow: With mind uncluttered, this is the finest season.

–Wumen Huikai

 

Spring is, in some respects, the most interesting season. No longer sluggish and gelid like molasses in January, rootlets slurp un-solid moisture, melt hoarded sugars, send sap skyward to awakened buds. Scrawny mammals creep […]

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