The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and...
Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attitudes,Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.
You know you have arrived when you have stopped caring about the destination
A pity it is evening, yetI do love the water of this springseeing how clear it is, how clean;rays of sunset gleam on it,lighting up its ripples, making itone with those who travelthe roads; I turn and...
My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.
Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you wo...
Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. This allegory of a physical mount...
This is shaping up even worse than you anticipated. Still, you feel a measure of detachment, as if you had suffered everything already and this were just a flashback. You wish that you had paid more a...
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as if...
You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.
A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And a...
Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.
I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist and I'm influenced by my readings in that tradition, such as the notion that everyone is born a perfect being and we spend most of our lives with a clouded vision trying...
To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.
But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the mo...
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