Combat will leave you feeling unresolved as you age. Often you search for clarity in it and find it blurrier. – on Remembrance Day
It’s cathartic to express yourself among friends and that’s a feeling we don’t prioritize but we should.
What is this one creating the categories or removing the categories? A step upward is recognizing the previously unrecognized. – case 179, One Shout Remains
Jogging pants are easily as addictive as heroin.
People who are unable to recognize their own emotions rising often blame outside forces.
That witch changed all of my emotions to bad so I’m not a bad person.
Present yourself as being on the side of honesty only.
‘There’s the best way to do this,’ Zarathustra thus spoke ‘and there’s other stupider ways too.’
If you forgive your past self and your future self you get double forgiven in the future.
Forgive your present self to get to know your future self.
If a monk were not put upon there would be no such thing.
To make a mistake would imply intention.
If press conferences were held along walks you’d have more objective journalism.
As we get lost in bureaucracy we learn not to process emotions.
If you’re not sure whether you should do something or not, just take a minute to think by yourself about it.
To see with a philosopher’s eye is to lose an empire.
To see with a philosopher’s eye is to be free of the desire to rule an empire.
Serial masturbaters love big houses as it always gives them a private place to masturbate.
He passed the first test of being honorable in negotiation.
Writing freely and trusting you as a reader is like stretching out.
You sure alleviate your stress when you start believing your own lies.
Create from your own spirit whatever you love to and find the people who also love those creations. I bet you’ll love all of their creations too.
The master requires direct questions. It’s not her job to guess what you want to know.
I’m happy in my meditation but often it’s not what I need. – on friendship
I’m so savage that I smash things up and insert them inside of me to absorb them. No fucking wonder aliens won’t come near us. We’re totally gross and probably covered in shit particles.
Your human brain will stop you from comparing yourself, fundamentally, to a leech.
If, for sport, you’re on a galloping horse do you spurn it on or reign it in?
When I chose a Chinese name for myself I got really lucky with the name Legitimate Thunder Potent Attacking Tiger. You know it’s legitimate because it’s right there in the name.
Don’t forget that at the end of this troublesome time we will have been through these defining ordeals together.
Go out in the world and create kindness wherever you can.
It’s too weird, too extreme, too unusual, too esoteric, too niche. It’s behind curtains of mazes. I’m surprised you’re still here.
A broad picture is well established. It’s the minutia that’s interesting.
Find an old man’s pace in your youth for philosophical growth.
The only requirement of the master is to overcome student induced emotions.
Look to me friend, you don’t get to take without giving back an equal amount.
You should jot down every idea without reading the one above it or you may lose it.
I’m attracted to whatever thing comes before it.
Settled in meditation is always what I’m striving for. I break all the rules to Enlightenment and so enter it.
She chose her friends wisely and they cut a diamond out of Buddha together. – on radical enlightenment
We practiced radical enlightenment on each other exclusively, each helping the other enlighten by any means necessary. We smashed ritual spontaneously.
Most people can’t free themselves from who they are socially because their brains don’t like to think about that.
Buddha starved himself to escape being in a gross human but he eventually decided to eat and basically tell everyone how shitty they were.
Escape your karmic Destiny by interrupting your patterns spontaneously.
Never take the benefit to spare the evil, you’ll lose in the long run.
‘The law supports evil corporations to commit evil Deeds that do harm to those who pay for the judicial system,’ he Ross Peroed.
I’m sorrowful that I can’t attend to everyone’s needs.
Always respect a person in their kingdom. Bring gifts when you visit.
Sometimes you’re the growing part of the wave and sometimes you’re the crashing down part. Guess which part is more important. – yin-yang
Of course I experienced them. I’m a human. I certainly don’t entertain them. I evict them. – Intrusive thought during meditation
As an unlikable character I’m grateful for the people who put up with me.
I’m drawn toward different dimensions while in deep meditation. I reject them for True meditation.
If you want to break the spell, interrupt whatever pattern you were repeating.
‘Sometimes I’m not a good person,’ she forgave herself.
Where would you find a man who moves quietly and appreciates darkness?
Save a wave of excitement in an audio file.
Society really started breaking down with the idea of keeping secret pass codes from one another.
I once met a man who could interpret the akashic records. he whispered them below your consciousness.
Remember when you were that puffball dandelion thing? Those were really the good old days.
How could you recognize that time comes and time goes?
In Earnest the birds fly and nature changes below them.
I am the minute you do that asking yourself why did you do that.
Without having experience with snakes you recognize them as dangerous things.
The child of constant light was blind in the dark, of constant noise deaf.
People who over prepare are usually boring. People who under prepare are a burden. Sometimes you’re the yin and sometimes you’re the yang.
It’s always better to experience truth than pandering. Truth will benefit you and pandering will find a way to get your money.
When your mental Kung Fu get stronger you can realise past barriers by virtue of practice.
Those who fear psychedelics fear themselves more.
The second you get caught up in yourself you fall into your own trap. You’ve swallowed your tail. – on Ouroboros
Only an idiot would think that Ouroboros represented birth death or Infinity.
All of your great skills are living awards for overcoming a previously unknown fear.
Fear doesn’t announce itself. It quietly fills the room and suffocates you.
She bathed herself in the cold water of the ground air.
These fools preached every stupid idea that pops into their heads.
Forgive forgetfulness would have greater impact than forgive and forget.
In the trials of meat and vegetable we suffer sentencing.
In the water I’ve been on the ocean I feel connected to the air and the water. Land be damned.
They sent the sailors out to draw the sky magic into the sea where they could fish.
You can read the last one two ways.
Sky magic can be countable.
Some of those Sailors reach to new and fertile lands.
Break fresh bread on solstice. Start the new year with lots of bread.
A new year used to be just that, a movement. Now it’s New Year.
Never start your day with attachment. – on a healthy breakfast
The person who drew the most warmth could never retain it.
The devil lives on the edge of a blade. How many people in jail wish that knives had no blades?
‘Shall I give the room more of your warmth? ‘ she blushed his heart to the rest of us.
What kind of a coward doesn’t fight for the weak?
Once meditation becomes your baseline, you get selective as to who may disturb it with what.
A rabbit will always go poking out of a hole first. – on the moon
He banished fear early and sat in the warmth of the fire.
Though there is a thing between them it burns warm with their love.
I only want the best for my child; some other form of unhappiness.
The kindness of the butcher caused him to set his tools against the soil.
If you look carefully you should always be able to see the producer’s fingerprint.
The longer you stare the more you’ll see its life and you weren’t conditioned to do that.
Every spell is broken by sacred words from your heart.
Stone Buddha will sit and watch you grasp for eternity. Your grasping created the stone Buddha.
Buddhism; A room with a view.
I was about to become a bird before you assholes interrupted my sweet evolution.
Some weak thing made demands of some other weak things.
If you wish to mete out Justice and think it’s fair then suffer it yourself first or shut up.
Someday you’ll wake up from a coma and ask the people around you what happened when reality started crumbling and the words they say will fill in your memories.
As Soon as you come back into consciousness, spend some time in deep meditation. You’ll never be closer to it.
‘Artificial light burns my eyes and is disrespectful of the environment around us,’ she witch doctored.
The witch doctor grew her garden in the shadow.
When given an opportunity always repair of something the right way.
There is a moment when you realize that all of your bad habits and grasping has brought you here.
The faithless items you keep as possessions will betray your effort to become unencumbered.
I want to be the type of friend who can remain nearby through silence working through whatever you are in silence.
Shouting is unbecoming of both guest and host. It’s a good thing those head monks weren’t wrapped up in tradition or they might never spontaneously enlighten. – case 180, Linji’s ‘Host and Guest’
Would it be spontaneous to just stop doing anything? Should I have asked that?
Through each generation the guest becomes the host. They also represent the life life death life life death cycle.
The tray of sticky glue is ego feeding admiration. Any bodhisattva who reveals herself isn’t really one, obviously. ‘Sometimes a teacher offers nothing, but the moment the student asks a question, he takes it away.’ Any concept that can be questioned was a hindrance anyway. Any teacher that misrepresents himself is a false teacher. – case 181, The Four Guest Host Relationships
Basho died in the moors, thinking about dreaming.
‘I can’t answer, it’ll hurt your ego.’ ‘Please do anyway.’ ‘your question is stupid.’ His student resisted to the death. – case 181, The Four Guest Host Relationships
Be respectful of that person in the mirror and they will show you respect too.
Don’t worry, I’m only disappointing other people right now.
Is there some great will that compels us? It works backwards to nonorigination but only lets us see forward for some reason.
Ceremony carries its own momentum, never mind the ceremonial objects.
These are your days of strong love.
What are you shooting for anyway? Immediacy? You would hate that. Be grateful for the process.
If you find yourself bored of writing, take a 10-minute break to be a cat.
If you ever come upon the end of my work, know that I’ve finally expelled whatever was necessary and shifted form again.
Clarity is as good as the fool you waste it on.
Clarity is made Stronger by the love you share it with.
In the end I know I’m overdue for a change.
How quickly can we succumb to fear? As the creator of it so you have just destroyed it.
If you’re looking for a secret message you won’t find it in Zen.
The real professionals do everything behind the scenes.
Fear takes hold in memory first then moves into fantasy. A Buddhist sweep expels it.
Her kindness unlocked some secret.
‘You obviously have to ban passion first or these assholes would make sport of jerking off.’ He spoke about the beginning of whatever religion you are.
It’s just wise not to know some things.
Fault doesn’t lie with the helpless or the helpers but rather with the speed at which they meet.
This work leaves me thirsty and in need of refreshment.
There is a poem that rings in people and makes them angels.
You’re internalizing things negatively because someone was mean to you and shaped your mind that way.
If you’re a woman of thought and records it’s important to think and create them. Don’t let people waste that time.
‘I guess it all depends on how engaged in life you want to get,’ she told of her future meditation progress.
The master sculptor sculpts one beautiful thing slowly.
Jackson Pollock would have been much more interesting had he not been Jackson Pollock.
I knew one hilarious artist who named himself a derogatory term and threw paint a canvas like an asshole.
All of this gets you a cold room with a cat and a candle. That’s really heaven to some strange people.
I love it when things just fit together right.
Never forget your fundamental non-being meditation. It allows you unnoticed movement and inadherence to negative entities.
‘If you’ll excuse me, I have to go piss on something the homeowner doesn’t want me to,’ the cat excused himself.
What foolish guests would challenge a host who had so much to offer.
You’re in the middle of being pushed by one force and pulled by another since the beginning of time.
Humans predict the likelihood of patterns from one-off events and though those prejudices serve us they also harm us.
The experience of being here among these unique physical collections is fascinating and exhausting.
Linji seems to imply that death is as sentient as the living entity that recognizes it. He says that death behaves in certain ways as a result of the deterministic universe the living are bound by. – case 181, The Four Guest Host Relationships
The student has a duty to examine the behaviour of any proclaimed Master. The master has a duty to deprive the student of their eagerness. The dissolvement of their presented selves reveals a ready form. Any Clarity of the student that’s self-induced is a breadcrumb house. The master piles bullshit on the student who then can quickly recognize it. – case 181, The Four Guest Host Relationships
Sometimes you have so much love that it conflicts you. We always focus on the pain of the conflict rather than the experience of so much love.
Sometimes I feel compelled to believe that the world is more full of enemies than allies. – you couldn’t be more wrong
The impossible barrier is only impossible from afar. A close examination reveals not a barrier but curtains that conceal the grand prize.
To sit and think in a quiet place is an act of rebellion for those of you subjugated by fear.
You should only shout ‘Now we’re cookin’!’ if you’re really cooking. Shouting ‘Now we’re cookin’!’ When you’re not really cooking is like shouting ‘fire!’ in a movie theatre.
I’ll always prefer your presence to your absence. – I swear to god I can write country songs
If you really want to be left alone while walking down some dark street, throw that demon of fear into the holy fire. You’ll see the street was only dark in your imagination.
The most boring thing in the world is to watch a marathon and that’s why it’s the most impressive to win.
Most people will never know every detail about everything. Most people won’t know most of the details about even some things.
Through growth you’ll find mistakes. Fewer mistakes is an indicator of less growth.
The spy is always a natural. – On overcoming fear
The process of overcoming is often written some hidden way.
If in your speech throughout the course of the day you’ve said more than you’ve heard, it’s time to reconsider.
Some swimmers jump headlong into massive waves. They who hold tight against the waves eventually learn to punch through them.
You’re always just sort of floating through the atmosphere.
The Akashic records can only be viewed in a nonoriginated state of Zen meditation.
It’ll always be the ‘not now’ you stupid idiot.
They used cruelty to control those around them.
Carry the Weight of the Dead ExercisePalooza kicked off without a hitch.
I want to watch a whole movie that goes off without a hitch.
Delivery method is always vastly more important than people give it credit for.
Please tell me you’re not reading this on a website. Fuck you if you are. I graffitied your presence from back here.
Often I’m compelled far beyond my own reason so I’m grateful for what the universe is becoming.