“ And what we’ve been always been is…?Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in… Thomas Pynchon
“ When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is… Dogen
“ What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indifferent to you? The conditions for your existence are almost as old as the… Erwin Schrodinger
“ You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,The crackle of their funeral pyres, Dick Allen
“ Every day Zuigan used to call out to himself, "Master!" and then he answered himself, "Yes, Sir!" And he added, "Awake, Awake!" and then answered, "Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!""From now onwards, do not be dec… Wumen Huikai
“ When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me. Jack Gilbert
“ Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night,I feel a longing forMy father before he was born. Ikkyu
“ That stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind Ikkyu
