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Two monks and a Woman — Zen story
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As another Zen teaching says, “The path is right beneath your feet.”
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Nowadays, you hardly ever see monks practicing takuhatsu. In Kyoto, they are found on the bridges; in Tokyo, they are usually in Ueno and in some more traditional neighborhoods; and in Nara, you can see them near the temples, but not inside.
Hector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life. Maezumi Roshi
John Daishin Buksbazen • Zen Meditation in Plain English
Suppose you could start your day with a sense that you were entitled to nothing. Everything, at that point, would truly be received and experienced as a gift.
Gregg Krech • Tunneling for Sunlight: Twenty-One Maxims of Living Wisdom from Buddhism and Japanese Psychology to Cope with Difficult Times
In other schools of Buddhism, awakening or bodhi seems remote and almost superhuman, something to be reached only after many lives of patient effort. But in Zen there is always the feeling that awakening is something quite natural, something startlingly obvious, which may occur at any moment. If it involves
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
My own experience with the koan “No” didn’t immediately change the shape of my life, though gradually it undermined the ramparts I had built against life. It was more that the koan reset my mind to zero. Learning was easier since I lost my shame about not knowing already. Yet whatever I was incompetent at doing, I continued to have to learn, or not
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