Imagine three buckets, each filled to the brim with a different shade of loving kindness. Paintbrushes hang from the first two buckets, but not the third. The first bucket holds loving kindness that you can only give to others. When you pick up its brush, you’ll notice that it fits […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
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A drunken man who falls out of a cart, though he may suffer, does not die. His bones are the same as other people’s; but he meets his accident in a different way. His spirit is in a condition of security. He is not conscious of riding in the cart; […]
Zen holds that there is no god outside the universe who has created it and has created man. God–if I may borrow that words for a moment–the universe, and man are one indissoluble existence, one total whole. Only THIS–capital THIS–is. — Nancy Wilson Ross from Zen to Go, Jon Winokur, ed., […]
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature — Frank Lloyd Wright My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing — Aldous Huxley from Zen to Go, Jon Winokur, ed., New American Library, 1989.
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Swami Sivananda Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, wither thou goest. — Ecclesiastes, […]