Daily Zen

Today's Zen (17 November 2011):

"Worldly ups and downs
Should be treated
As lightly as clouds
Gathering and breaking up."
- Anonymous

Zen from Thursday 4 August 2011:

"...to Look life in the face, always to look life in the cace, and to know what it is, to love it for what it is. At lase to know it. To love it for what it is. And then to put it away."
- Virginia Woolf

Zen from Thursday 22 September 2011:

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it as someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
- Buddha

Zen from Thursday 20 October 2011:

"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even fiercer life because of our quiet."
- William Butler Yeats