Buddhist quotations

I used to have Buddhist quotations that I had copied to pieces of paper on my wall. I think that those taught me a lot about happy life and high skills. I read mainly Zen Buddhist books, Stephen Mitchel's translation on Tao-Te-Ching and poetry in Finnish. In addition I practised sports and walked in the nature.

From a book of maybe Shunryu Suzuki:
"The best way to control a sheep is to give it a meadow."
This is good for learning sports talents: just give each intention, each feeling, social influence, each phenomenom in the world it's natural place in the whole and moving goes smoothly and life finds it's right tracks.

There is a saying that is maybe common but I do not remember it well anymore, it is something like:
"When hiungry, eat.
When tired, sleep.
When walking, just walk.
Above all: don't wobble."
If I remember roght, it is very Japanese and traditional there., reminds me of Basho's poems, of the view on nature and wandering there.

There s a quotation that I liked much but which I guess is not common. Yet I found it very benefical for me:
"I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly, I am not a butterfly collector."
But maybe I found this opening the viewpoint of my background in sciece.

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22. of May 2020
One of the first books I read about Buddhism, maybe the first, was very good at teaching Buddhism and happiness via Buddhism, especially the pictures of the book were good, but so also the text, at least it's beginning, I do not remember much about it anymore, but I have tried to search for it and it is out of print. It would be very valuable, at least for Europeans like Finns, if someone could pay the next edition(s), but the pictures in the book are expensive. It was something like Anne Bancroft: Zen - direct pointing to reality, but maybe I spelled the name wrong.Print-on-demand publishing like www.createspace.com maybe could solve the problem. Recommendations from readers could sell the book, I think. When I used createspace.com, it was free, just the proof copy costed and postage, but one can via it sell in amazon.com too and determine oneself the price but they take some percentage from it and demand some tax information, which I do not have as a foreigner, so I cannot get any money from such. But I did not manage in selling, so I am just a blog writer.

Asian masters compared to European

I guess that an European like an Asian master in skills would be called "grand master" of the thing in question, in Finnish that is "suurmestari", and have position like an ordinary Asian teacher in Asia, I guess. I guess that the reason for this is that the skill difference to ordinary Europeans arem't so big, since European's level of skill and wisdom of life is quite high.

Enlightenment and torture

Enlightenment gives a better ability to live everyday life as more skilled and more happy and with more wisdom of life and some social skills. It is not a way to overcome torture or other very miserable life circumstancies. Maybe enlightenment can help slightly to some such fates, I guess that to old time physical labour in agriculture especially, but for example overly much labour in academical work is much easier to bear if one is stupid.

Better capacity at making observations typically brings some wisdom of life. But like the point Knitting enlightenment in this blog shows, just such knowledge isn't enough. Instead you need to be inclined toward that type of practical action for it to succeed, for it to make you happy. Even then overly much is boring and brings poor work habits, while the same as refreshing extra brings good quality of life for a moment and is so typical to persons who like to do many kinds of things in their days and change often from one action to another that happens to interest/fascinate them more right then. Often the rythm of good quality work is like an edging path and not like a rigid scedule that lasts and lasts, boringly.
So it seems that enlightenment goes well with civilized freedom and not with torture like things. 
Lot of forcing to some kind of area of work comes typically from those who think that it is a good profession, like it.