Daily Inspiration

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

- Dogen

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 10 Feb 2014

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his states and all their clans are preserved.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 27 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiaration

If a man in the morning hears the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 24 Jan 2014

Today more than ever before life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

- Dalai Lama

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 25/26 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

One may know the world without going out of doors.

One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.

The further one goes, the less one knows.

Therefore the sage knows without going about,

Understands without seeing,

And accomplishes without any action.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 8/9 Feb 2014

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 23 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 7 Feb 2014

Work out your own salvation.

Do not depend on others.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 22 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

- Chuang Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 6 Feb 2014

The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 21 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

- Dalai Lama

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 5 Feb 2014

"He insulted me, hit me, beat me, robbed me" - for those who brood on this, hostility isn't stilled. "He insulted me, hit me, beat me, robbed me" - for those who don't brood on this, hostility is stilled. Hostilities aren't stilled through hostility, regardless. Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 20 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 4 Feb 2014

By three methods we may learn wisdom:

First, by reflection, which is noblest;

second, by imitation, which is easiest;

and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 18/19 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage (or of principle).

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 3 Feb 2014

My greatest happiness consists precisely in doing nothing whatever that is calculated to obtain happiness.

- Chuang Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 17 Jan 2014

Daily Inspiration

When you are free from all attachments, when you are indifferent to success and failure, then you experience inner serenity.

- The Bhagavad Gita

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Mon 30 Dec 2013

Oh mother earth, father wind,

Friend light, sweetheart water,

Brother sky,

Here take my last salutation

With folded hands!

- Bhartrihari

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Tue 31 Dec 2013

Daily Inspiration

Great speech is impassioned;

small speech cantankerous.

- Chuang Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 1/2 Feb 2014

If only I could share it:

The soft sound of snow

Falling late at night

At this old temple.

- Hakuin

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Sat/Sun 28/29 Dec 2013