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Once there was a monk who asked, “What is the meaning of the Patriarch coming from the West? (What is Zen?)”

The master said, “The oak tree in the garden.”

- The Gateless Gate, Case 37

[zegalba]

Trees which have been struck by lightning

[the-night-picture-collector]

Hannes Kilian, Cat Nero in the Snow, 1953

[animatitration]

雨音や

ポツポツの間に

除夜の鐘

The sound of rain

And between the pitter-patter

Midnight bells

[enchantedbook]

‘When the Moon came down’ by Feridun Oral

[animatitration]

空風や

最後のひと葉

揺れている

Winter’s dry air

Only the last leaf

Is swaying

[abbaswift]

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

[why-does-this-happen-to-me]

It's also 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³.

[brainscrems]

And 45 is 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9

[animatitration]

-No, señor maestro -respondió Villarroel-. Llamamos amor a la humanidad a la compasión por el dolor ajeno y a la veneración por las obras de nuestros grandes ingenios (...). En ninguna de ambas formas vale ese amor como argumento para demorar el fin del mundo. Adolfo Bioy Casares "El calamar opta por su tinta"

[animatitration]

If only she could write the first 'Dearest' and then sign her name, such that an omniscient Mahendra would read between the lines all that she meant to write.

Rabindranath Tagore “Chokher Bali”

[animatitration]

¡Y caen! Caeréis, hojas misérrimas de mi ciprés, caeréis, como cualquier otra hoja bella y vistosa; y, si yo tuviese ojos, os daría una lágrima de tristeza. Ésta es la gran ventaja de la muerte: que, si no deja boca para reír, tampoco deja ojos para llorar... Caeréis.

Brás Cubas en sus memorias póstumas

[merpanacea]

RED POPPIES (1948) Kiyoshi Saito

[manga-and-stuff]

Source:  Mushishi / 蟲師

by Yuki Urushibara

[thunderstruck9]

Huang Yuxing (Chinese, b. 1975), Gyatso’s Palace, 2019-20. Acrylic on canvas, 45.3 x 230 cm. & 12.3 x 12.3 cm.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Yoko Tanji aka たんじようこ aka タンジ ヨウコ aka 丹地陽子 aka Sicca (Japanese, based Tokyo, Japan) - Bat Nyan, 2015, Drawings

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Seki (Japanese, 20th c.) - Evening Scene, Paintings: Watercolor on Paper

[animarchive]

Amon Saga by Yoshitaka Amano / Anime V magazine (01/1991)  

[thunderstruck9]

Martin Wickström (Swedish, b. 1957), Blue Moon, 2012. Canvas. 55 x 55.5 cm.