Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku.Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of phenomena is emptiness. There is no relaization, no delusion, no sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be received."Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing. Suddenly he whacked Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite angry."If nothing exists," inquired Dokuon, "where did this anger come from?"
Hell is not punishment, it's training.~Shunryu Suzuki
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ~Aristotle
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~Ambrose Bierce
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ~Voltaire
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. ~Theodor Adorno
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche