Change Is The Only Eternal,-Why Not
As Welcome Death As Welcome as Life?
『 However, let us not too sentimental.Let us be luxurius but more magnificent.
Said Laotose: "Heaven and rarth are pitiless."
Said Kobodaishi: "Flow, flow, flow, flow, the current of life is ever onward.
Die, die, die, die, death comes to all."
Destruction faces us wherever we turn.
Destruction below and above, destruction behind and before.
Change is the only Eternal,-Why not as welcome Death as Life?
They are but counterparts one of the other,-The Night and Day of Brahma.
Through the disintegration of the old, re-creation becomes possible.
We have worshipped Death, the relentless godness of mercy, under many different names.
It was the shadow of the All-devouring that the Gheburs greeted in the fire.
It is the icy purism of the sword-soul before which Shinto-Japan prostates herself even today.
The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire.
From our ashes springs the phoenix of ccelestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realism of manhood.』
(From the Book of Tea-Flowers, pp.98-99, Charles E. Tuttles Co., Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan)
The acceptance of the philosophy of "Change is the only Eternal" is the most important fact of orietntal idea.
If you understand the idea, you will be able to find the oriental Eternity.
「From our ashes springs the phenix of celestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood.」
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