Daily Inspiration

Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death.

- Buddha

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

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

- Confucius

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

Daily Inspiration

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

- Bodhidharma

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

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

- Confucius

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

Daily Inspiration

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.

Do not overdo it.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 31 Oct 2014

Great wisdom is generous; 

petty wisdom is contentious.

- Chuang Tzu

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

Daily Inspiration

We acquire the strength

we have overcome.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 29 Oct 2014

Our life is shaped by our mind;

we become what we think.

Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 30 Oct 2014

Daily Inspiration

Truth is by nature self-evident.

As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 28 Oct 2014

Daily Inspiration

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Daily Inspiration

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

- Confucius

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

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

- Buddha

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

Daily Inspiration

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

- Confucius

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

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

- Dalai Lama

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

Short Movie Comparison (Potential Spoilers)

Saw 2 action fantasy movies over the past 2 days both about ancient powerful relics found in ancient ruins. And how the protagonists have to prevent the bad guy from using the relic for evil and destruction. Of course the protagonists win, and (spoilers below)
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the relic is placed in storage by the government (to never be seen again?).
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The first movie I watched last night, came out in 1981 (set in 1936): Raiders of the Lost Ark, I watched it in preparation to eventually go see the Indiana Jones exhibit at the Telus World of Science - Edmonton.
The second movie I watched tonight, came out in 2014, and starts off set in 1988! though moves to 2014 quickly: Guardians of the Galaxy.

Just thought it was an interesting comparison. There are probably more movies out there with the same similarities, just haven't seen any others in a while.

Daily Inspiration

To know that you do not know is the best.

To pretend yo know when you do not know is a disease.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 16 Oct 2014

You will not be punished for your anger;

you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

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