“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.” IfsBodyEyeLyingAsksCausesWalkingSpringSittingDustIntimateVisibleGrainDharmaTreasuryLying Down Author:Dogen
“Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.” MenWorldWholeBodyCreationHe ManMetaphorMythNarrativeSandGrainApocalypseImageryFreezeMessiahTotalityExtendingUnifiedLogosRecurringGrains Of SandClusters Author:Northrop Frye
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.” IfsBodyActionGivenAnimalEatingRootsIf I CouldSignificanceRitualGrainFillingUtilitarian Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend