Zen Thoughts...

**Sp00k** · 02-21-2006, 08:43 AM

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

*G_Man* · 02-22-2006, 07:20 AM

In the sea of IsÃƒ.©, ten thousand feet down, lies a single stone. I wish to pick up that stone without wetting my hands.

ZEN KOAN

**Sp00k** · 02-22-2006, 09:39 AM

We study the Changes after the lines
Have been put together.
Why should we not set our minds on that which
Was before any line way drawn?

- Chu His

*G_Man* · 02-23-2006, 05:36 AM

Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

HOWARD CUTLER

**Sp00k** · 02-23-2006, 09:40 AM

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

*G_Man* · 02-24-2006, 05:47 AM

Ten thousand trees freeze, just about
to crack.
One lone tree only, warm, reviving:
in the nearby village, deep in snow,
last night one branch came into bloom.

CHÃ¢â‚¬â„¢I-CHI

**Sp00k** · 02-24-2006, 08:51 AM

Have good trust in yourself -- not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are
- Maezumi Roshi

**Nightmare** · 02-24-2006, 10:26 AM

**Sp00k** · 02-25-2006, 04:39 AM

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
- The Buddha

*G_Man* · 02-25-2006, 08:19 AM

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that IÃ¢â‚¬..?or rather the blessed Not-IÃ¢â‚¬..?cared to look at.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

**Sp00k** · 02-26-2006, 05:27 AM

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance
- Hui-Neng

*G_Man* · 02-26-2006, 09:08 AM

It is as hard to see oneÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s self as to look backwards without turning around.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

*G_Man* · 02-27-2006, 05:27 AM

Not yet having become a Buddha,
the ancient pine-tree
idly dreaming.

ISSA