From Dogen: “As long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.”
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Quote of the day 04/28/24
From Dogen: “If there were fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.”
Quote of the day 04/27/24
From Dogen: “Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.”
Quote of the day 04/26/24
From Dogen: “If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.”
Quote of the day 04/25/24
From Dogen: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Quote of the day 03/23/24
From Cormac McCarthy: ‘Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
Quote of the day 03/10/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “The more clearly you become conscious of the frailty, vanity, and dream-like quality of all things, the more clearly will you also become conscious of the eternity of your own inner being; because it is only in contrast to this that the aforesaid quality of things becomes evident, just as you perceivedContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/10/24”
Quote of the day 03/08/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Quote of the day 03/07/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
Quote of the day 03/06/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
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