Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Monday 19 September 2011):

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Friday 22 July 2011:

"The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists."
- William Jefferson Clinton

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 17/18 September 2011):

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
- Robert M. Pirsig

Zen from Thursday 21 July 2011:

"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.."
- Tilopa

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Friday 16 September 2011):

"My mind is my own church."
- Thomas Paine

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Wednesday 20 July 2011:

"Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
- Buddha

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (Thursday 15 September 2011):

"From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry."
- Sutra of Forty-two Chapters

Zen from Tuesday 19 July 2011:

"The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity."
- D. T. Suzuki

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Wednesday 14 September 2011):

"Many lifetimes of misunderstanding come from distrust, hindrance, and screens of confusion that we create in a scenario of isolation."
- Hongzhi Zhengjue

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Monday 18 July 2011:

"Do, or do not. There is no try."
- Yoda

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 13 September 2011):

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easer to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."
- John Burroughs

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Sat/Sun 16/17 July 2011:

"Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten."
- Confucius

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (Monday 12 September 2011):

"The sage looks at the unity which
Belongs to all things,
And does not perceive where
They have suffered loss."
- Chuang Tzu

Zen from Friday 15 July 2011:

"Right thoughts produces right actions and right actions produce work that will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all."
- Robert M. Pirsig

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 10/11 September 2011):

"Vow to achieve the perfect understanding that the illusory body is like dew and lightning."
- Hsu Yun

Zen from Thursday 14 July 2011:

"Our existence seesaws between animality and divinity, between that which is more and that which is less than humanity."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (Friday 9 September 2011):

"There seems no plan because it is all plan;
there seems no center because it is all center."
- C. S. Lewis

Zen from Wednesday 13 July 2011:

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
- A.J. Muste

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Thursday 8 September 2011):

"You should withdraw inwardly and search for the ground upon which you stand; thereby you will find out what Truth is."
- Yun-men Wen-yen

Today's Tarot
1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Tuesday 12 July 2011:

"Our task must be to free ourselves from out prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein