Sunday Zen

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. --Zora Neale Hurston

Sunday Zen

You are already complete. You just don't know it.

Sunday Zen

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. --Joseph Campbell

Sunday Zen

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. --Swami Rama

Sunday Zen

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals. Stand up for the stupid and crazy. Take your hat off to no man. --Edward Abbey

Sunday Zen

An American seeker: "If you follow any way, you will never get there; and if you do not follow any way, you will never get there. So one faces a dilemma."

Hisamatsu: "Let the dilemma be your way!"

Sunday Zen

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Sunday Zen

The flowers fall, for all our yearning; weeds grow, regardless of our dislike.

Sunday Zen

True freedom is freedom from your own desires. -- Diamond Sutra

Sunday Zen

You are the music while the music lasts. -- T. S. Eliot

Sunday Zen

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. -- The Buddha

Sunday Zen

If you have attained something, this the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightment. -- D. T. Suzuki

Sunday Zen

I have no time for lies or fantasy and neither should you. Enjoy or die. -John Lydon

Sunday Zen

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. --Albert Einstein

Sunday Zen

Sit, rest, work. Alone with yourself, never weary. On the edge of the forest, live joyfully, without desire. --The Buddha

Sunday Zen

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. --John Muir

Sunday Zen

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. --Wendell Berry

Sunday Zen

The first question I ask when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. --John Cage

Sunday Zen

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life--after that you cannot be deceived.

There is no need to be afraid of beguiling characters and those who would cause you harm by leading you back into the darkness once you've seen-and experienced-the light. But first, you must take the time and energy to go there. The light, that is.

The light is a scary place. Truth can be frightening. That's why few find it and fewer use it once they have. But, friends, if you can unravel yourselves to what is known and what is real then you will find that you have become a very powerful being indeed. So powerful that you will tear through lies and misconceptions without blinking. Because you are not afraid of the Truths that they hide.