I wouldn’t normally have participated in the nearest book meme going around on Planet Ubuntu, except that sentence 5 of page 56 of the nearest book happened to be divine! From Alan Watts’ “The Way of Zen”:
It happened to stumble perfectly on the closing quote of that particular paragraph! If you want to participate:
Suffering alone exists, none who suffer;
The deed there is, but no doer thereof;
Nirvana is, but no one seeking it;
The Path there is, but none who travel it.
It happened to stumble perfectly on the closing quote of that particular paragraph! If you want to participate:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Comments
hey! the same thing happened to me just now, after reading the same “find the book nearest to you” message on facebook. i picked up “the Way of Zen” by Alan Watts. at first i read the fifth line… “ghosts as realities. … ideals, our..” But i realised that i was to read the fith sentence. That summary of Buddha’s doctrine is really interesting to stumble upon by chance like that :) and out of about 300 books, that was the closest.. Kool
But The Very Hungry Caterpillar doesn’t have that many pages…