Thoughts on - suggestion, irregularity, simplicity, perishability
"Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless?...In all things, it is the beginnings and the ends that are interesting."
"In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth"
"The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty"
"A man with no business will never intrude into an occupied house simply because he so pleases. If the house is vacant, on the other hand, travellers journeying along the road will enter with impunity, and even creatures like foxes and owls, undisturbed by any human presence, will take up their abodes, acting as if the place belonged to them. Tree spirits and other apparitions will also manifest themselves.
It is the same with mirrors: being without color or shape of their own, they reflect all manner of forms. If the mirrors had color and shape of their own, they would probalbly not reflect other things.
Emptyness accommodates everything. I wonder if thoughts of all kinds intrude themselves at will on our minds because what we call our minds are vacant? If minds were occupied, surely so many things would not enter them"
