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Zen DJ		#621	[-]
Posts: 4355 (04/27/09 12:42 PM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	As I've been remiss in my Zen quoting duties (due to circumstances beyond my control), here's several to catch us up to speed... As my eyes search the prairie I feel the summer in the spring. - Chippewa song "Mind is shapely, Art is shapely." - Jack Kerouac "See as if for the first time a beautiful person or an ordinary object." - Shiva "The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution." - Paul Cezanne
Zen DJ		#622	[-]
Posts: 4368 (04/29/09 10:01 PM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius." - George Sand
Zen DJ		#623	[-]
Posts: 4371 (05/05/09 12:25 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"As far as I'm concerned, I regret nothing." - Miyamoto Musashi, the samurai
Zen DJ		#624	[-]
Posts: 4376 (05/06/09 05:29 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop." - Kahlil Gibran
Zen DJ		#625	[-]
Posts: 4387 (05/26/09 01:34 PM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Once again, I've dropped the proverbial ball of Zen. So to make up for it, here's a few quotes to mull... "Peace... comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the Universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us." - Black Elk "To be moral is to discover fundamentally one's own being." - Simone de Beauvoir "To be alive, to bee able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle." - Arthur Rubinstein "Think enough and you won't know anything." - Kenneth Patchen
Zen DJ		#626	[-]
Posts: 4392 (06/01/09 04:54 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind." - Eric Butterworth
Zen DJ		#627	[-]
Posts: 4401 (06/15/09 07:24 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein
Zen DJ		#628	[-]
Posts: 4411 (06/30/09 04:04 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Time to play catch-up once again... "The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness." - Emanuel Swedenborg "We are more curious about the meanings of dreams than about things we see when awake." - Diogenes "Zen is the vehicle of reality." - Jim Harrison "I am free when I am within myself." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four: If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting." - Zen saying "The eye is the lamp of the body; if therefore thine eye is single, thy whole body shall be full of light." - Matthew 6:22 "The most divine knowledge of God is that which is known by not knowing." - St. Denis "Wind moving through the grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand." - Katherine Mansfield SONG OF THE TREES The wind Only I am afraid of. - Chippewa song
Zen DJ		#629	[-]
Posts: 4422 (07/01/09 02:50 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the intelligence at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived as opposites." - Andre Breton
Zen DJ		#630	[-]
Posts: 4447 (07/15/09 10:33 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"All beings are Buddha. All beings are the truth, just as they are." - Robert Aitken
Zen DJ		#631	[-]
Posts: 4450 (07/30/09 05:36 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Here's a few to mull while I'm away on vacation next week... "The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being." - Hui-neng "It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." - Vida D. Scudder "To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom." - Confucius "First there is a mountain, Then there is no mountain, Then there is." - Donovan
Zen DJ		#632	[-]
Posts: 4458 (08/12/09 04:19 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." - G. K. Chesterton "Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe..." W. H. Auden "Being, not doing, is my first joy." - Theodore Roethke "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" - Paul Gauguin, inscription on one of his paintings
Zen DJ		#633	[-]
Posts: 4462 (08/13/09 01:44 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"The philosophy of intuition takes time at its full value. It permits no ossification, as it were, of each moment. It takes hold of each moment as it is born from Sunyata [the void]. Momentariness is therefore characteristic of this philosophy. Each moment is absolute, alive, and significant. The frog leaps, the cricket sings, a dewdrop glitters on the lotus leaf, a breeze passes through the pine branches, and the moonlight falls on the murmuring mountain stream." - D. T. Suzuki
Zen DJ		#634	[-]
Posts: 4473 (08/25/09 06:56 PM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - Lin Yu-t'ang
cryo114		#635	[-]
Posts: 389 (09/04/09 10:05 AM) I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than have a frontal lobotomy... Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Zen, are you a Buddhist (eg, Zen, Theravada, Vipassenna)? Or do you just have an apprecitation for the zen paradox? Last Edited By: cryo114 09/04/09 10:08 AM. Edited 1 times.
Zen DJ		#636	[-]
Posts: 4480 (09/10/09 02:21 PM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Cryo, I'd say your second statement is more apropos than the first. Though to be honest, I'm more of a just a Zen-quoting-slacker-Buddhist-wannabe who's not willing to fully commit to Zen Buddhism but who finds it far more appealing, interesting (not to mention sensible) than any other of the various "organized religions" out there. And with that said, here's some quotes to make up for my recent negligence in this thread due to the annoying intrusion of actual reality in my life ... "If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught." - Vauvenargues "Arouse the mind without resting it on anything." - Diamond Sutra "We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self." - Cyril Connolly "In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." - Robert Green Ingersoll
Zen DJ		#637	[-]
Posts: 4482 (09/14/09 03:33 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"Each of you is perfect the way you are . . . and you can use a little improvement." - Shunryu Suzuki
Zen DJ		#638	[-]
Posts: 4494 (10/08/09 05:31 PM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in roses." - Esther Warner Dendel "If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun." - Edna St. Vincent Millay Life is a candle before the wind. - Japanese proverb "Each moment presents what happens." - John Cage "The mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson
Zen DJ		#639	[-]
Posts: 4495 (10/15/09 03:59 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"Standing on the bare ground . . . a mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me, I am part or particle of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen DJ		#640	[-]
Posts: 4508 (10/27/09 02:06 AM) Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"I yam what I yam, and that's all that I yam." - Popeye

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