I have not posted in a few days as I was in Edmonton spending time with my boyfriend, and family. So here are the Zen a day for the weekend:
Saturday 12 January 2008
Open your mouth and you're wrong.
- Zen saying
Sunday 13 January 2008
Seung Sahn and a student were having a conversation which finally came to this question from the master: "If you were seventy years old ans someonw asked, 'What did you attain?', how would you answer?"
The student hit the floor with his fist.
"Not a bad answer. But what if you had no hands? See? Before you were born, you had no eyes, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. And no hands. Soon enough, you'll die, and you'll have no eyes, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no hands. So then what are you?"
The student bowed, and thanked the master for his teaching.
Monday 14 January 2008
When you've got it, there's no place for it but a poem.
- Wu Pen
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