Zen a day - catch-up 4 - June 13-19

Friday 13 June 2008
People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe - but usually no one else notices.
- Brad Warner

Saturday 14 June 2008
Holding to the One is not Truth.
- Zen saying

Sunday 15 June 2008
The moon's the same old moon,
The flowers exactly as they were,
Yet I've become the thingness
Of all the things I see!
- Bunan

Monday 16 June 2008
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughtare for all thoughts.
- John Keats

Tuesday 17 June 2008
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell

Wednesday 18 June 2008
The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait for a moment, or you'll lose your head.
- Hsueh-dou

Thursday 19 June 2008
Red morning sky -
snail,
are you glad of it?
- Issa