There is no authority but yourself.
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Buddhism Without Buddhism: a resolutely irreligious Buddhism; a Buddhism that is rooted in human meanings rather than in fantasies of the sacred; a Buddhism that is pervaded by a thoroughgoing this-wordliness: it is, perhaps, an impossible thing to hope for. But at the same time, I find the idea extraordinarily attractive, it has become a touch-stone for how I think about Buddhism. But with a question mark at the end, just for good measure.
“I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like you parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. ~ Henry Rollins”
“The men of old knew that life comes without warning, and as suddenly goes. They denied none of their natural inclinations, and repressed none of their bodily desires. They never felt the spur of fame. They sauntered through life gathering its pleasures as the impulse moved them.” – Yang Chu
生死事大
無常迅速
光陰可惜
時不待人
Shou ji ji dai
Mu jou jin soku
Kou in oshimu beshi
Toki hitowo matazu
Great is the matter of Birth and death;
Life slips quickly by;
To waste time is a great shame;
Time waits for no one;
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tired of the distractions of modern living, Henry David Thoreau went to the woods to live a deliberate and simple life. He borrowed some land near a pond called Walden from friend Ralph Waldo Emerson and built himself a simple 10′x5′ shack. The inside was furnished with a bed, a table, a desk, and three chairs. That’s it. Total cost to build his man shack? $28.12. It was in this small hut in the woods that Thoreau would get the inspiration he needed to write his most famous work of Transcendental Philosophy, Walden, Or Life in the Woods. Thoreau’s rustic man-hut has inspired men for generations to tear out into the woods, build a shack with their own bare man hands, and start sucking the marrow out of life.
@ Amazon: Walden
