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Posts tagged with "Zen"
Nov. 27 |
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.– Alan Watts
The greater part of Zen literature consists of mondo, of brief dialogues between masters and pupils, which illustrate its peculiar method of instruction,...
Nov. 6 | When getting what needed,
you only need to get
what is good enough,
and it is good enough.
– Shilashanti
The relationship between the mind and the body is like that between the chicken and the egg. If you cultivate a simplified mindset, your body, too,...
Oct. 30 | Consume mindfully
with compassion and wisdom
or consume mindlessly
with greed and delusion.
– Shilashanti
Do not neglect your meals:
Make your meals about the eating
When you eat, are you focused on the act of eating? Breakfast is something you race...
Jul. 24 | Our spiritual health demands
that we let go of anger,
or else it will never let go of us.
– Seneca
Seneca, to judge by his self-presentation in his writings, was a self-reflective and inward-looking man. He describes, in one of the passages...
Apr. 10 |
Some say ‘clothes maketh the man’. There is some truth in this, but only to some extent. The idea is that how well you dress can somehow lead to how well you succeed. It is a little like the concept of ‘fake it till you make it’...
Oct. 25 | If you think you are either superior or inferior to someone,
an invisible wall goes up between you.
Treat him like an old friend you haven’t seen in a while.
When you let your guard down, so will he.
– Haemin Sunim
I heard a story from Korea…...
Oct. 4 | [Mis]fortune falls heavily on those
for whom she’s unexpected.
The one always on the lookout easily endures.
– Seneca
(On Consolations To Helvia, 5.3)
There is a story of a Zen Master who has a beautiful prized cup. The master would repeat to...
Jul. 26 | The impediment to action
advances action.
What stands in the way
becomes the way.
– Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)
There is an old Zen story about a king whose people had grown soft and entitled. Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, he hoped to teach...
Jul. 4 | Practise to be as deliberate as you can now,
so that you can be as free as you can later.
– Shilashanti
In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but one reality… Zen is the ‘everyday mind’;...
Jan. 24 |
When Commissioner Gordon asked, ‘How many of you (i.e. heroes) are there (in the Justice League to be)?’, Batman replied with ‘Not enough!’ How many then, are enough? When everyone of us become heroic in nature, with none of...
May. 6 |
学说之误人,
只在最初几希之间。
其后之结果,
则无法可收拾矣。
– 净土宗十三祖印光大师
(复谢慧霖居士书十六)
Those saying theoretical teachings that mislead others,
only, in the beginning, [do not take]...
Feb. 24 |
若人欲拿金碧峰,
除非铁鍊锁虛空,
虛空若能锁得住,
再來拿我金碧峰。
– 金碧峰禅师
If one desires to seize Jin Bifeng,
unless able to use metal chains to lock empty space,
[and] if empty space is able to be locked...
Jan. 19 |
何为禅?
何非禅?
何须问?
吃茶去!
What is Zen?
What is not Zen?
Why need ask?
Go drink tea!
《赵州禅师语录》: 师问二新到:’上座曾到此间否?’ 云:’不曾到。’ 师云:’吃茶去。’
From...
Jul. 1 | Just do the needed now,
but be sure it is
truly what is needed now.
– Stonepeace | Books
A student was on Mount Tiantong in China, studying Chan [Chinese Zen], when one day he encountered an old monk who was working as chief cook. It was midsummer,...
Nov. 10 | 过去心不可得,The past mind cannot be attained,
现在心不可得,The present mind cannot be attained,
未来心不可得。The future mind cannot be attained.
– 金刚经 (释迦牟尼佛)
Diamond Sutra (Sakyamuni Buddha)
Here are three...