Zen a day - Mar 31

Saturday 29 March 2008
A monk asked Ummon, "If a man kills his father, kills his mother, he may repent before Buddha. If he kills the Buddha, kills a patriarch, where can he repent?"
Ummon answered: "Quite!"
- Ummon's One Word Zen


Sunday 30 March 2008
We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
- Salmon Rushdie

Monday 31 March 2008
Poetry arrived to look for me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or river, I don't know how or when. No, there weren't voices, there weren't words, or silence.
- Pablo Neruda