Zen: Cloud

A   L   O   H   A !

" Selfishness & complaint 

pervert the mind.

Love 

with its joy 

clears and sharpens

 the vision." 

                   Helen Keller

 “Anyone 

who keeps the ability 

to see beauty 

in every age of life

 really 

never grows old.” 

Franz Kafka

Disciple: “Please tell me 

the summary of Buddhism.”

Master: “If a cloud does not

 float over the mountain,

 the moonlight will go

 through the waves 

of the lake.”

Before the Master 

completed his statement, 

the Disciple was enlightened.

 " The one who has seen

 the rising moon break 

out of the clouds at 

midnight 

has been present

 like an archangel 

at the creation 

of light and of 

the world.  "

                Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "How sweet

 the morning air is! 

See how that one little cloud

 floats like a pink feather

from some gigantic flamingo. ” 

                             Arthur Conan Doyle, 

                                                    Sherlock Holmes

The humble 

Cumulus humilis -

 never hurt a soul.” 

                  Gavin Pretor-Pinney, 

                               The Cloudspotter's Guide

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Thanks, Friends

                     Warmly, cloudia