Zen a day

For the new year I got a Zen page-a-day calendar.
Here are the sayings todate:

Tuesday 1 January 2008
All at once the roshi, the room, every single thing disappeared in a dazzling stream of illumination and I felt myself bathed in a delicious, unspeakable delight . . . For a fleeting eternity I was alone - I alone was . . .
- A student describing Kensho

Wednesday 2 January 2008
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
- George Baker

Thursday 3 January 2008
The monk Hyakujjo and his master, Baso, were taking a walk when a wild duck flew by. "What is that?" Baso asked. "A wild duck," Hyakujo replied. "And where did it go?" Baso asked. Hyakujo replied: "It is gone." With that, Baso violently tweaked Hyakujo's nose. When Hyakujo yelled in pain, Baso said, "There! Where can it go?" The effect was to cause Hyakujo's sudden enlightenment.
The next day, after he paid homage to Baso, Hyakujo returned to his room and started crying out loud. A monk asked him what was the matter, and he said to go ask Baso. When the monk did this, Baso said to go ask Hyakujo. But when the monk returned to Hyakujo's room, Hyakujo was laughing heartily. The monk was baffled, but all Hyakujo could say was, "I cried a while ago, but now I laugh."
- Zen story

Friday 4 January 2008
If you want to understand Zen easily, just be mindless, wherever you are, twenty-four hours a day, until you spontaneously merge with the Way. This is what an ancient worthy called "The mind not touching things, the step placed anywhere."
- Ying-an

Saturday 5 January 2008
When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Sunday 6 January 2008
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.
- The Upanishads

Monday 7 January 2008
The Scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
- Lao-tsu

Tuesday 8 January 2008
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
- Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday 9 January 2008
A nameless bird
looks cold
in the wintry blast.
- Sampu

Thursday 10 January 2008
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein

Friday 11 January 2008
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde