Vegetarian Ideal


Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Buddha Statues, Japan and China



Nara Daibutsu, c. 752, Nara, Japan







Leshan Giant Buddha, c. 803, a stone statue carved out of a mountain face in Leshan, China








Monday, May 20, 2019

Omar Khayyám quotes (more)



“Youth, like a magic bird, has flown away
He sang a little morning-hour in May
Sang to the rose, his love, that too is gone--
Whither is more than you or I can say.” 
― Omar Khayyám


“This Universal wheel, this merry-go-round
In our imagination we have found
The sun a flame, in the Cosmic lantern bound
We are mere ghosts, revolving, the flame surround.” 
― Omar Khayyám



“Strange is the riddle of this life of ours!
Who knows the meaning of the heavenly powers?
Great Caesar's wounds bleed yearly in the rose,
And flower-like ladies turn again to flowers.” 
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam  


“While the Rose blows along the River Brink, With old Khayyam the Ruby Vintage drink: And when the Angel with his darker Draught Draws up to thee—take that, and do not shrink.”
― Omar Khayyam, 

"... And let me burn for one hundred years among sin, I'm not afraid of hell, I despise torture, but scare me, the choir of fools, from death is more terrible conversation with them ..." Omar Khayam
- Omar Khayyam


“The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.”
― Omar Khayyam



"Happy the one who never saw this world."
- Omar Khayyám



"You hate me that I'm drunk forever. Well, I am!
Unbelievers do me. And what if it is?
Anything you can say on my account.
I belong to myself. Understand? And I am what I am! "
- Omar Khayyám


"If you want to listen to me, I give you this advice:
For the sake of God, do not put on
the robe of hypocrisy.
The future life is always, this world is
only an instant;
Do not sell the kingdom of eternity for
a second. . "
- Omar Khayyám, THE QUARRAINS OF OMAR KHÂYYÂM 





"Only taste in the present ... the past has the smell
of the dead."
- Omar Khayyám, THE QUARRAINS OF OMAR KHÂYYÂM



"Around this rouge floats a fine boar.
Is it a fragile mist of fog? Do you look for perfume?
A rest of the night veil is your Moorish hair?
Wake up, for dawn in cups pours gold ... "
- Omar Khayyám



"They say that those who
do not want to die when they die will rise so that

we will always

be with our beloved and beloved ones who will motivate our people so much"
- Omar Khayyam



“And if the Wine you drink, the Lip
you press,
End in what All begins and ends in
—Yes;
Think then you are TO-DAY what


YESTERDAY You were—TO-MORROW you
shall not be less” 
― Omar Khayyám, Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat : Rubaiyat Omar Khay



So lets not let those precious moment of life exhaust
because soon fade away. And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám


“Listen again. One Evening at the Close
Of Ramazán, ere the better Moon arose,
In that old Potter’s Shop I stood alone
With the clay Population round in Rows.

And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried—
“Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?”
― Omar Khayyám
tags: rubáiyát-of-omar-khayyám, transl-by-edward-fitzgerald


“The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
tags: mortality


"There is no one in the world except wind,
because everything has fallen, not existed,
there's no existing existence, and brother-in-law considered
as no longer"
- Omar Khayyám
tags: omar-khayyam


“How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"—think some: Others—"How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!”
― Omar Khayyám,


“Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”
― Omar Khayyam,

“Khayyám, who stitched the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned,
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
tags: nothingness, science


“Since the truth always goes out of hand -
Do not try to understand the incomprehensible, friend.
Take the cup in your hands, remain ignorant,
There is no sense, believe in the study of science. ”
- Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام
tags: learning


“Alas, the sky is not favorable!
Whatever you want - the opposite is true.
God does not bestow what is permitted,
Forbidden - and the devil does not give. ”
- Omar Khayyám,  
tags: life

“What is the common happiness to suffer without suffering?
Better happiness is to give someone close.
It is better to bind one's friend to oneself
Than to free mankind from the fetters. ”
- Omar Khayyám,

“The creator of stars, heaven and earth
surpassed himself when he also created pain. Lips like rubies, delicious-smelling hair, blooming flowers, how many of you are
already buried in earthy soil?”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam



“Everything that we see is only one visibility.
Far from the surface of the world to the bottom.
Consider the insignificant obvious in the world,
For the secret essence of things is not visible. ”
- Omar Khayyam
tags: philosophy, point-of-view, psychology, vision




 





Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet.

  

Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. 



Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise now.


Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time bas but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.


When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.