The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there - Yasutani Roshi We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. - Einstein I gained nothing at all from supreme enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called supreme enlightenment - the Buddha
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life. - Juan Ramon Jimenez I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room - Blaise Pascal We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience - Buddha I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.--- ram dass
One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield. - The Buddha “Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.†---Alan Watts “We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.†--- Alan Watts
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me. ---ram dass “The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there†---Robert M. Pirsig The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.---Diamond Sutra
"The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains; "The white clouds are of themselves white clouds." ---Zenrin Kushû "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." ---Zenrin Kushû All conditioned things are impermanent be a lamp unto yourself ---Buddha's last words
What is inexpressible is inexhaustible in its use. ---A Chinese Zen master I would rather sink to the bottom of the sea for endless eons than seek liberation through all the saints of the universe. ---Shih-t'ou If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top. ---Zen saying
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