Koan #4...

By Vichara

Koan Monday once again friends. “Great understanding comes with great love.” Wisdom and compassion are inseparable. To be wise is to love and to love is to be wise. In this journey of cultivating a “good” and “honorable” life you begin to see that love is the quality of heart that unites us withy others and all of life. This essential ingredient is not something that should be parsed out but should be imbedded in each and every act that we do everyday. Fused not separate. The more bonded with all of our actions, the greater our understanding of the world increases. And as it increases the more the mind stills the thoughts that divide us and brings us to a greater unification through…love.

adust • \uh-DUST\ • adjective
: scorched, burned
Example Sentence:
The adust landscape of volcanic rock and sand can be particularly beautiful at sunset.
Did you know?
"Adust" comes from Latin "adustus," the past participle of "adurere" ("to set fire to"), a verb formed from the Latin prefix "ad-" and the verb "urere" ("to burn"). It entered the English language in the early 15th century as a medical term related to the four bodily humors -- black bile, blood, phlegm, and yellow bile -- which were believed at the time to determine a person's health and temperament. "Adust" was used to describe a condition of the humors in which they supposedly became heated or combusted. Adust black bile in particular was believed to be a source of melancholy. The association with melancholy gave rise to an adjectival sense of "adust" meaning "of a gloomy appearance or disposition," but that sense is now considered archaic.