A week of Zen a day catch-up:
Thursday 28 February 2008
Koans will change your idea of who you are, and this will require courage . . . Everyone thinks they want happiness, but they might not. They might rather keep their stories about who they are and about what is impossible.
- John Tarrant
Friday 29 February 2008
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
- John Coltrane
Saturday 1 March 2008
Our minds are continually active, fabricating an anxious, usually self-preoccupied veil which partially conceals the world.
- Iris Murdoch
Sunday 2 March 2008
If your understanding is the same as that of your teacher, you take away half your teacher's worth. When your understanding surpasses your teacher, you are worthy to succeed him.
- Zen saying
Monday 3 March 2008
One day Master Kuei-shan and Yang-shan were picking tea leaves. The Master said: "All day I have heard your voice, but I have not seen you yourself. Show me your real self."
Yang-shan shook the tea bush. The Master commented: "You have achieved the function but not the substance."
When Yang-shan asked his master what he had achieved, the Master remained silent. Yang-shan commented: "You, Master, have achieved the substance, but not the function."
- Zen mondo
Tuesday 4 March 2008
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suspect.
- Thomas More
Wednesday 5 March 2008
Walking along a mountain path
I find a sandal-print in the moss,
a billowy cloud low on the lake,
grasses growing up to a door,
a pine tree shimmering green,
a brook gurgling along from the mountain,
and as I mingle with Truth among the flowers,
I have forgotten what to say.
- Liu Chiang-ch'ing
Thursday 6 March 2008
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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