人生到处知何似，应似飞鸿踏雪泥。
泥上偶然留指爪，鸿飞那复计东西。
老僧已死成新塔，坏壁无由见旧题。
往日崎岖还记否，路长人困蹇驴嘶。
-苏轼 《和子由渑池怀旧》

Mind-heart of compassion is the beginning of benevolence; mind-heart of shame and disgust is the beginning of righteousness; mind-heart of courtesy and humility is the beginning of propriety; mind-heart of right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. - Mencius 372BC-289BC - Second sage of Confucius.

"Knowing that there is nothing you can do about it, accept it as fate" - Zhuang zi (Zhuang zhou) - one of two founders of Taoism

"知其不可奈何而安之若命" - 庄子(369 bc - 286 bc)

#tao #taoism #zhuangzi #zhuangzhou

"There is but one serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy" - Albert Camus
#philosophy #themythofsisyphus #camus

Mars stationing retrograde, opposite to Pluto with Venus. Venus gets wrecked. Yesterday, Qiong yao, the single best seller/writer of pop love story in Asia, committed suicide; today, actress Miho Nakayama found dead - her starring movie, "love letter" 1995 was extremely popular, also in Asia
#venus

The delphic maxim from seven sages at the temple of Apollo: "Know yourself", "Nothing in excess", "Surety brings ruin".

#philosophy #wisdom #ancientgreek

”The reason I have great worries is that I have a body; if I have no body, what worries do I have?" - Lao Tzu (born 571 BCE)
老子：吾所以有大患者，为吾有身也；及吾无身，吾有何患?

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?” - Socrates

"People are considered free so that they can be judged or punished" - Nietzsche

Are you truly free?

Nietzsche: To comprehend eternal recurrence/return, and to not only come to peace with it but to embrace it, requires amor fati, "love of fate"

Amor Fati - do you love fate?

Does astrology explain all aspects of fate?

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.” Immanuel Kant. #kant #philosophy

#moral vs #ethic #kant #philosophy

After Pluto enters Aquarius (tropical sign) today, it'll not go back to Capricorn for another 230 years. At this moment, in the sidereal system, Rahu in Pisces trine Mars in Cancer at a close degree signaling a chaos of war, conflict and struggle in coming years.

the piercing looks...

NOW: Pluto entering Aquarius, Jupiter opposite mercury exact, it's time to have a new life. #pluto #aquarius #tropical Jupiter and Venus - Parivartana Yoga, #jyotisha #sidereal #Eudaimonia #astrology #enlightment #peijing #旆旌