Never overlook bathing as a part of ritual. The best festival in the world is a three-day ritual bathing event.
‘When did insane become the norm?’ Kafka wondered.
You really won’t enjoy life if you spend a lot of time shitting on people and circumstance.
If you permit I’ll bid you adieu avec bonne volonté.
If free will didn’t exist why would anyone ever dispute its existence?
She gave up trying to be and became.
‘The only way to be at one place and another place at the same time is to be really fast.’ Fagin Instructed of Alabis.
A quiet and meditative place is the most important area of any home.
Buddha offered nothing of great value.
Kasyapa would read the last one differently.
‘The reader was so mental that they couldn’t even entertain the idea that they were mental.’ They glanced over the words thoughtlessly.
Shakamuni Coming out of the Mountain Is currently hung upside down.
Always use polite words when you’re being a dick to someone so as to have the story told without proper intonation.
His movement was a danger to behold.
Autumn feels like a comfortable chair and a good book or television show and time to heal.
To observe the small thing is to observe the nature of all things.
It’s a fun bonfire, stoked with conversation. It’s a good rest, stoked with silence.
‘She moved elegantly in a unique way,’ he enamoured.
He who begs for his ego broken is free of it.
‘Oh, you’re wondering about the balance,’ he devised from her imbalance.
‘Are you worried that this experience will be unique?’ She insulted his previous experiences.
‘He really wasn’t a good role model anyway,’ the priest eulogized the free thinker.
Guess what you’ve always been doing? The same things that you’re doing now.
If you don’t find Worship in the things you despise then you’re not really progressing here.
I feel unusual so that’s normal.
It’s hard to insult a Buddhist about Buddhism, it’s their practice to not concern themselves.
She offered him her help, she said that if she were in his shoes she was sure he would help her.
‘It’s some Essence that doesn’t experience time,’ the finger pointed at the Moon.
The cheeky monk wore burnt rag pieces scavenged from the cremation sites.
I’ve never not been what I am, even before I was born. How could it be possible that I weren’t?
Sometimes the obvious thing shines brighter than moonlight.
Being different is more important than being usual.
I took two weeks off of myself and I feel phenomenal.
Look man, either you’re moving or not moving.
Those who mistake life for experience get too caught up in it.
‘I’m too busy to think about it,’ he spoke of the raven who would carry his spirit to the underworld.
Depth can seldom be measured in distance.
If you want predictable then go to McDonald’s again you stupid asshole.
The lofty thing became beyond care.
Some people you meet are just bubbling over with creativity.
When you withdraw from some reality of life that’s you being present in some separate reality. The continuous experience is the monks standard.
‘What type of a thing were you?’ The future archaeologist wondered aloud about her most recent dig.
We were here to experience it before it happened.
What kind of an idiot would create worry in a predetermined world? does worry shape reality? Does meditation become it?
‘Sorry, you stupid bloated worm,’ she apologized.
How do you know what’s real or not? Wouldn’t a false reality have false evidence that it was real?
It always comes back to the unoriginated mind.
They who are pre-occupied with some emotion projected onto other people who are without any strong emotion.
Never cannot live without always.
The world moves around the Buddha spirit.
Wheel of the Buddha spirit as the columns that hold up the arena.
Now that you’ve chosen to be alive in this moment aren’t you glad that we’re here together?
It’s your responsibility to move this forward.
The upper edges of the map were all she ever cared about.
He destroyed the cork in the bottle of good.
‘Why is everything great for a minute?’ She threw her hands in the air.
Some things draw you in and some things push you away and this damn book pushes like hell. – on sitting down to write
It sucks that present simple includes continuous action. It’s total bullshit.
There are no rules for studying Zen. If you can’t get over that you’re not studying it.
Alice had experiences so unique that they altered her as a person. Nobody really understood what the hell she was talking about after that.
We perceive smaller things as less of a threat than larger things. We perceive things that are far away as less of a threat then things that invade our personal space. We perceive far away things as small and nearer things as large. Our relationships with sizes were formed through this illusion.
English speakers don’t have a word for not understanding something. Even the description of it is awkward sounding.
‘Is it time?’ He asked the Monk
‘of course, it’s always time.’
Listen to your old bones creak into sitting position.
The monk paced until he found the right place on the floor.
All philosophy is trying to understand life in a greater sense. It’s the brain trying to evolve.
Only lunatics can handle some conversions and only the bravest lunatics are ever successfully converted.
‘Remove the form of yourself,’ he flicked her forehead.
Force defines the form.
Hey fuck you! I’m in one of those stupid fucking snippets of your memory you stupid fucking asshole. Fuck you from here.
The ‘fuck you’ surpassed time.
Very unfortunately I know my place.
‘You just put your life in too difficult mode,’ she chastised the young celebrity, ‘you’ll never know another true friendship.’
Buy the most beautiful door handle you can find. Then you’ll love opening a door every day.
A monk can be anyone who practices monkness.
Give me a hot room in Winter please.
The story of Medusa is an Aesopian tale on how to deal with the spirit realm.
The oaths given allowed to the room are considered oaths to the spirits as well.
Vanity is the driving force behind the extinction of our species.
Oh Lord bless me with weird times.
‘Consciousness is one of the great illusions,’ she enlightened him.
The critic stared into space and complained of its emptiness.
‘Does that which binds us create us?’ The Zen master asked her career counsellor.
The critic complained of the silence between songs.
‘Without being nice, what do you imagine my life has been like?’ She asked a robot.
When someone self-destructs from their incompetence they burn everyone around them.
The enlightened patient examined herself more thoroughly than her clinical psychologist.
The last one is a bit of a dangling modifier.
She pointed the way by proving all other directions meaningless.
He realized after reading it that it made his load heavier and now he’s on the path to shed it. – on transmission of light
Notes From The Heart Wisdom Sutra:
-Everything shares the traits of emptiness and so they all obviously exists in emptiness
– All of your perceptions are linked together
– The way your thoughts follow a logical chain of events proves they are linked together
– This is true also for insight and attainment
– If you can read this you don’t need anything
– Some living Buddha types are around and they’re basically staying here to help us attain enlightenment
– Having a perfect mantra can enlighten oneself
He assumed that because it was in his possession, he owned it. She loosened his grip and revealed his freedom.
When you realize it’s impossible, you’re free.
The stalemate freed her from the game.
You don’t have to blindly follow rules if there’s no reason not to. If you want to drive a little over the speed limit or have an abortion, I say go for it.
Whoever can come up with some really cool characters gets to create a religion.
The worst of a person you become, the less you’ll get out of the universe.
Liking something is the extension of desire.
A prosperous culture is kind to younger people and respectful to older people.
Notes from Sengan’s poem ‘Trust in the Heart’:
– You shouldn’t have feelings about liking things or not
– Getting emotional (any emotion) about anything impairs your objectivity
– Everyone’s worst mind habit: being for or against a concept. You can only start meditation by recognizing that
– Accepting things or rejecting things leads to feelings of too much or too little of things
– You choose to be entangled in nonsense
– Accept the pain of life and meditate, the pain will disappear
– Trying to rest makes you restless. Practice meditation when you’re restless
– Don’t make the mistake of denying reality or desiring the void, these are having feelings about Concepts
– The more you try to understand it, the less enlightened you’ll become. Just start meditating
– Abandon all thoughts
– Ignore everything
– Your thoughts eventually create problems for you
– You are the doer and you create your own actions
– Keeping these two things still brings you to the void that is beyond your concepts
– Practicing meditation brings consistency to your Zen progress