MINT “ M i n t , m i n t , e v e r i n g o f m i n t , a n d t r e e t h a t I l o v e d o n t h o s e c o o l p C a l i f o r n i a O c t o b e m a t c h e d a n y w h e r e
y t h i n g s m e l l o n e f i n e o l d t o s i t u n d e r e r f e c t s t a r r y r n i g h t s u n i n t h e w o r l d . ”
“One man practicing kindne the wilderness is worth al temples that this world pu
ess in ll the ulls.�
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.�
“to me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.” japhy got out the tea, chinese tea, and sprinkled some in the tin pot, and had
the fire going mean-
while... and pretty soon water was boiling and
the he
poured it out steaming
into
the
tin pot and we
had
cups
of tea with our tin cups
“remember that book i told you about the first sip is joy and the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.”
the first sip is joy and the second is gladness the third is serenity the fourth is madness the fifth is ecstasy
“The closer you get to re and wood, boy, the more
eal matter, rock air fire spiritual the world is.�
“Now
the
R
mountains
were getting that pink
tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of
dust
accumulated
there since beginning-
less time. In fact I was afraid of those jagged monstrosities all around
and over our heads. “They’re so silent!” I said. “Yeah man, you know
to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience,
hundreds
of thousands of years
just sitting there bein perfectly
perfectly
si-
lent and like praying
for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all
our frettin and foolin.”
R
“Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a m o u n t a i n “
,tnim fo gnillems gnihtyreve ,tnim ,tnim dna “ rednu tis ot devol I taht eert dlo enif eno dna rebotcO ainrofilaC yrrats tcefrep looc esoht no ”.dlrow eht ni erehwyna dehctamnu sthgin
TNIM Made
by:
MACY
SALAMA