Daily Zen

Having given up my right to truth and justice, how do I find myself in its midst? Once again, we find that only by giving something away can we come to possess it.

-Myself, pondering in the shower

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

- Turkish Proverb

Q: What did the Zen Buddist say to the hot dog Vendor?
A: "Make me one with everything."

I think that's more for the Funny Zen thread. But yes, funny.

haha, "make me one with everything" .... good one

Heres two:

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they
are all alike in that they will one day die. It is not that we don't know that we are going to die, but we grasp at
straws. While knowing that we will die someday, we think that all the others will die before us and that we will be the
last to go. Death seems a long way off.
--Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai--By Yamamoto Tsunetomo



Other people are happily gathered, as if readying to partake in an exquisite banquet, to view a spring parade. I stand alone, quietly, inconspicuously. Innocently, as if an infant not knowing how to smile; Aimlessly, as if a wanderer not knowing where to go. Other people have much to spare; I, alone, am bare. Perhaps my foolish heart. Common people glow; I, alone, am in the dark. Common people are alert; I, alone, am stark. Other people are skillful; I, alone am clumsy and bashful. I am different from others; I treasure being embraced by Direction. --Lao Tzu

"Is it any more or less important than the other parts?"

Yes, slightly.

Thank you, nenipp.

My mind is my own church.

- Thomas Paine

How true! My favorite childhood 'church' memory was of running into the building early...so I could jump off the balcony without being seen, and running off into the woods. Time spent wandering, sitting under trees and looking up through the wooded canopy, running through piles of autumn leaves...with no sense of time.

Many people find church a Paine.

why, because they have to go tomass?

tomass Paine... it's a joke...... sorry guys

I get it, I get it!!!

Cooking, eating, sleeping, every deed of everyday life is nothing else than the Great Matter. Realize this! So we extend tender care with a worshipping heart even to such beings as beasts and birds-but not only to beasts, not only to birds, but to insects too, ok? Even to grass, to one blade of grass, even to dust, to one speck of dust. Sometimes I bow to the dust...

- Soen Nakagawa

Yes I'm sorry to, got carried away...
...I blame Oldman though

btw not until now did I realise that my little addition must seem kinda weird for you guys who speek good english (the name Thomas is pronounced differently where I come from), so I feel more than a bit silly

and I can understand that it led to a bit of misunderstanding on the part of christie

Now as the ladder of life has been strung
You may think a Sweep's on the bottom-most rung
Though I spend my time in the ashes and smoke
In this whole wide world there's no happier bloke

Happiness is a state of mind. Obviously, a lesson Cinder-Ella never learned.