Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Zen-a-day - July 24

Tuesday 22 July 2008
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
- Iris Murdoch

Wednesday 23 July 2008
Student: "You say that Zen is everywhere - why do we have to come to the Zen center?"
Shunryu Suzuki: "Zen is everywhere, but for you, Zen is right here."

Thursday 24 July 2008
The perfect employs his mind as a mirror.
- Chuang-tzu

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