Sublime

Buddhism in England, which is now called The Middle

But the genuine Zen flavor is when a man is almost miraculously natural without intending to be so. His Zen life is not to make himself but to grow that way.

It is simply the expression of the universal discovery that a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.

The Joyous Cosmology,

You are only really there when you let go of everything and do not depend on any fixed idea or belief for your sanity or happiness.

He is enlightened who joins in this play knowing it as play, for man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist-the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes. For all these things are a deception of symbols pretending to be realities, and to seek after them is like walking straight int

when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere.

He carried a red Moroccan wallet, as I myself do to this day,