“What is the straight within the bent?”
~Zen koan
Author: DhammaSeeker
just be mindless
“If you want to understand Zen easily, just be mindless, wherever you are, twenty-four hours a day, until you spontaneously merge with the way. This is what an ancient worthy called ‘the mind not touching things, the steps no placed anywhere.'”
~Ying-an
a realized person
“The hallmark of a realized person is lightness and briskness.”
~Yamada Roshi
the direction of your gaze
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
~Carl Gustav Jung
evboard modship
I was made an evboard mod today.
the most difficult part
“One day a student asked Taiga, ‘What is the most difficult part of painting?’
Taiga answered: “The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.'”
~Artist Zen
Tsunami Before and After Pic Sets
This web site has a “before” and “after” satellite pics of the same land areas. Simply incredible.
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/
random entertaimnet
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
http://thefifthdistrict.com/potter/
not a butterfly collector
“I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector.”
~William Stafford
the heart of zazen
“How do you think of not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the heart of zazen.”
~DÅgen