Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence.
Donna QuesadaYou don't think your way back to joy; you open to it.
Donna QuesadaTags: inspirational zen
Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.
Donna QuesadaTags: inspiration zen wisdom-quote
Who we are now is all that really matters.
Amy JoyTags: inspirational philosophy zen
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 not yet painting Spring.
DōgenTags: zen peaches spring koan willows apricots plums
Consider this:
1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?
And here's a bonus question:
2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?
Tags: consciousness buddhism zen drugs
He knows not where he's going,
For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination,
It's the glory of the ride
Tags: zen edward-monkton
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 the things they use.
Robert M. PirsigTags: zen technology apple relationship
Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.
Tags: poetry buddhism philosophy zen poem philosophers japan buddhist poems japanese hermit monk ryokan seers zen-monk
I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up nothing of any real worth to me. I did not debate restaurant bills, politics, wrongly delivered mail, divorces. These things were officiously loud, and silence was always best.
Soren NarniaTags: romance silence zen losing divorce
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