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See the moon’s bright blaze of light,
A shining lamp, above the world
Full glistening and hanging in vast void.
That brilliant jewel,
Its brightness, through the mist.
Some people say it waxes, wanes
Their’s may, but mine remains
As steady as the Mani Pearl
This light knows neither day or night.

~ Shih Te (730)

You ask why I live
Alone in the mountain forest,
And I smile and am silent
Until even my soul grows quiet:
It lives in the other world,
One that no one owns.
The peach trees blossom.
The water continues to flow.

~ Li Po (701–762)

Cover your path
With fallen pine needles
So no one will be able
To locate your
True dwelling place.

~ Ikkyu (1394-1481)

Things of the past are already gone
And things to be,
Distant beyond imagining.
The Tao is just this moment,
These words:
Plum blossoms fallen,
Gardenia just opening.

~ Ch’ing Kung ( d. 1352)

Excessive thinking
Weakens the will.
The more you know,
The more your mind
Is confused.
A confused mind gives
Rise to vexation.
The weakened will obstructs the Tao.

~ Shih Wang Ming (6th c)

My life is poor
But my mind is so clear
As I pass
Day after day
In this grass hut.

~ Hakuin (1686-1768)

Keep your heart clear and transparent
And you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought, though,
Creates ten thousand distractions.
Let myriad things captivate you
And you'll go further and further astray.
How sad to see people
All wrapped up in themselves.

~ Ryokan

The great Tao flows everywhere,
To the left and to the right.
All things depend upon it to exist,
And it does not abandon them.
To its accomplishments it lays no claim.
It loves and nourishes all things,
But does not lord over them.

~ Chuang tzu

@rookie54 said
aside from the last quote you've attributed to freud, which i do not understand,
those others seem rather useful, if not downright profound...

i've had nearly fifty years of various relationships with various women and i have learned only that they are all different, all want something different, rarely take no for an answer, and are mostly quite hypnotizing to me...
heck, i'll not try to lump all women into the all women box, it don't work...

Buddha is concealed within sentient beings
If for one instant of thought we become impartial,
Then sentient beings are themselves Buddha.
In our mind itself a buddha exists,
Our own buddha is the true Buddha.
If we do not have in ourselves the Buddha mind,
Then where are we to seek Buddha?

~ Huineng (638-713)

The six supernormal faculties of the enlightened
Are the ability to enter the realm of form, without being confused by form
To enter the realm of sound, without being confused by sound
To enter the realm of scent without being confused by scent
To enter the realm of flavor without being confused by flavor
To enter the realm of feeling without being confused by feeling
To enter the realm of phenomena without being confused by phenomena

~ Linji (d. 867)