Never overlook bathing as a part of ritual. The best festival in the world is a three-day ritual bathing event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018When did insane become the norm?\u2019\u00a0 Kafka wondered.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
You really won’t enjoy life if you spend a lot of time shitting on people and circumstance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
If you permit I’ll bid you adieu avec bonne volont\u00e9.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
If free will didn’t exist why would anyone ever dispute its existence?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
She gave up trying to be and became.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018The only way to be at one place and another place at the same time is to be really fast.\u2019 Fagin\u00a0Instructed of Alabis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A quiet and meditative place is the most important area of any home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Buddha offered nothing of great value.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Kasyapa would read the last one differently.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018The reader was so mental that they couldn’t even entertain the idea that they were mental.\u2019\u00a0 They glanced over the words thoughtlessly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Shakamuni Coming out of the Mountain Is currently hung upside down.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Always use polite words when you’re being a dick to someone so as to have the story told without proper intonation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
His movement was a danger to behold.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Autumn feels like a comfortable chair and a good book or television show and time to heal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
To observe the small thing is to observe the nature of all things.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It’s a fun bonfire, stoked with conversation. It’s a good rest, stoked with silence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018She moved elegantly in a unique way,\u2019 he enamoured.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
He who begs for his ego broken is free of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Oh, you’re wondering about the balance,\u2019 he devised from her imbalance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Are you worried that this experience will be unique?\u2019 She insulted his previous experiences.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018He really wasn’t a good role model anyway,\u2019 the priest eulogized the free thinker.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Guess what you’ve always been doing? The same things that you’re doing now.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
If you don’t find Worship in the things you despise then you’re not really progressing here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I feel unusual so that’s normal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It’s hard to insult a Buddhist about Buddhism, it’s their practice to not concern themselves.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
She offered him her help, she said that if she were in his shoes she was sure he would help her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018It’s some Essence that doesn’t experience time,\u2019 the finger pointed at the Moon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The cheeky monk wore burnt rag pieces scavenged from the cremation sites.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I’ve never not been what I am, even before I was born. How could it be possible that I weren’t?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Sometimes the obvious thing shines brighter than moonlight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Being different is more important than being usual.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I took two weeks off of myself and I feel phenomenal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Look man, either you’re moving or not moving.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Those who mistake life for experience get too caught up in it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018I’m too busy to think about it,\u2019 he spoke of the raven who would carry his spirit to the underworld.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Depth can seldom be measured in distance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
If you want predictable then go to McDonald’s again you stupid asshole.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The lofty thing became beyond care.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Some people you meet are just bubbling over with creativity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
When you withdraw from some reality of life that’s you being present in some separate reality. The continuous experience is the monks standard.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018What type of a thing were you?\u2019 The future archaeologist wondered aloud about her most recent dig.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
We were here to experience it before it happened.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
What kind of an idiot would create worry in a predetermined world? does worry shape reality? Does meditation become it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Sorry, you stupid bloated worm,\u2019\u00a0 she apologized.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
How do you know what’s real or not? Wouldn’t a false reality have false evidence that it was real?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It always comes back to the unoriginated mind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
They who are pre-occupied with some emotion projected onto other people who are without any strong emotion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Never cannot live without always.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The world moves around the Buddha spirit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Wheel of the Buddha spirit as the columns that hold up the arena.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Now that you’ve chosen to be alive in this moment aren’t you glad that we’re here together?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It’s your responsibility to move this forward.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The upper edges of the map were all she ever cared about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
He destroyed the cork in the bottle of good.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Why is everything great for a minute?\u2019 She threw her hands in the air.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Some things draw you in and some things push you away and this damn book pushes like hell.\u00a0 – on sitting down to write<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It sucks that present simple includes continuous action. It’s total bullshit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
There are no rules for studying Zen. If you can’t get over that you’re not studying it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Alice had experiences so unique that they altered her as a person. Nobody really understood what the hell she was talking about after that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
English speakers don’t have a word for not understanding something. Even the description of it is awkward sounding.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Is it time?\u2019 He asked the Monk<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018of course, it’s always time.\u2019<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Listen to your old bones creak into sitting position.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The monk paced until he found the right place on the floor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
All philosophy is trying to understand life in a greater sense. It’s the brain trying to evolve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Only lunatics can handle some conversions and only the bravest lunatics are ever successfully converted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Remove the form of yourself,\u2019 he flicked her forehead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Force defines the form.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Hey fuck you! I’m in one of those stupid fucking snippets of your memory you stupid fucking asshole. Fuck you from here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The \u2018fuck you\u2019 surpassed time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Very unfortunately I know my place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018You just put your life in too difficult mode,\u2019 she chastised the young celebrity, \u2018you’ll never know another true friendship.\u2019<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Buy the most beautiful door handle you can find. Then you’ll love opening a door every day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A monk can be anyone who practices monkness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Give me a hot room in Winter please.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The story of Medusa is an Aesopian tale on how to deal with the spirit realm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The oaths given allowed to the room are considered oaths to the spirits as well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Vanity is the driving force behind the extinction of our species.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Oh Lord bless me with weird times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Consciousness is one of the great illusions,\u2019 she enlightened him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The critic stared into space and complained of its emptiness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Does that which binds us create us?\u2019 The Zen master asked her career counsellor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The critic complained of the silence between songs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u2018Without being nice, what do you imagine my life has been like?\u2019 She asked a robot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
When someone self-destructs from their incompetence they burn everyone around them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The enlightened patient examined herself more thoroughly than her clinical psychologist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The last one is a bit of a dangling modifier.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
She pointed the way by proving all other directions meaningless.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
He realized after reading it that it made his load heavier and now he’s on the path to shed it. – on\u00a0 transmission of light\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Notes From The Heart Wisdom Sutra:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
-Everything shares the traits of emptiness and so they all obviously exists in emptiness<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– All of your perceptions are linked together<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– The way your thoughts follow a logical chain of events proves they are linked together<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– This is true also for insight and attainment<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– If you can read this you don’t need anything<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Some living Buddha types are around and they’re basically staying here to help us attain enlightenment<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Having a perfect mantra can enlighten oneself<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
He assumed that because it was in his possession, he owned it. She loosened his grip and revealed his freedom.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
When you realize it’s impossible, you’re free.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The stalemate freed her from the game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Whoever can come up with some really cool characters gets to create a religion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The worst of a person you become, the less you’ll get out of the universe.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Liking something is the extension of desire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A prosperous culture is kind to younger people and respectful to older people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Notes from Sengan\u2019s poem \u2018Trust in the Heart\u2019:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– You shouldn’t have feelings about liking things or not<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Getting emotional (any emotion) about anything impairs your objectivity<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Everyone’s worst mind habit: being for or against a concept. You can only start meditation by recognizing that<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Accepting things or rejecting things leads to feelings of too much or too little of things<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– You choose to be entangled in nonsense<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Accept the pain of life and meditate, the pain will disappear<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Trying to rest makes you restless. Practice meditation when you\u2019re restless\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Don’t make the mistake of denying reality or desiring the void, these are having feelings about Concepts<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– The more you try to understand it, the less enlightened you’ll become. Just start meditating<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Abandon all thoughts<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Ignore everything<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Your thoughts eventually create problems for you<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– You are the doer and you create your own actions<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Keeping these two things still brings you to the void that is beyond your concepts<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
– Practicing meditation brings consistency to your Zen progress<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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