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Confusion

can camouflage

a powerful intent. Timidity

can conceal iron will.

Fragility can mask

might.

 

Thus

the superior warrior

lures and deceives, falls back

and then surges, drawing the opponent

this way and that into the path of his

strikes. His emphasis is not on the

effect of one movement, but

rather the weight of his

combinations.

 

He

uses his soldiers

like a multitude of arrows

and stones, sometimes keeping

them still, sometimes releasing them

in a terrible storm, like boulders

hurtling down a steep mountain.

This is the way to shape

energy in war.

 

from The Art of War, Chapter V

 

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If you

are trying to attain

enlightenment, you are creating

and being driven by karma, and you are

wasting your time on your black cushion.

The most important things in our practice are

our physical posture and our way of breathing.

We are not so concerned about a deep understanding

of Buddhism. As a philosophy, Buddhism is a very deep,

wide, and firm system of thought, but zen is not concerned

about philosophical understanding. We emphasize practice.

We should understand why our physical posture and

breathing exercise are so important. Instead of

having a deep understanding of the teaching,

we need a strong confidence in our teaching,

which says that originally we have

Buddha nature. Our practice

is based on this

faith.

 

Shunryu Suzuki

 

Hexagram 55: FÊNG /

ABUNDANCE

 

In

the search 

for enlightenment, 

there is an ever-present 

certainty that there is more to do, 

someone else who holds the 

secret, another state to 

attain.

 

In the 

finding of it, 

there is the comical

revelation that not one

of those things was 

ever true.

 

小畜

Hexagram 9: HSIAO CH’U /

THE TAMING POWER OF THE SMALL

 

The

best effort 

one can make is the 

gentlest effort: wei wu wei. 

Quietly, persistently direct the 

mind toward emptiness. When 

all thoughts and ideas have 

dissipated, then make no 

further effort. Just 

breathe. 

 

This

is the only

practice required of a 

human, the best one, the one 

that perfectly purifies

our lives.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching

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Those

who wish to

embody the Tao

should embrace all things.

To embrace all things means first

that one holds no anger or resistance

toward any idea or thing, living or

dead, formed or formless.

Acceptance is the very

essence of the

Tao.

 

To embrace

all things means also

that one rids oneself of any

concept of separation; male and

female, self and other, life and

death. Division is contrary

to the nature of

the Tao.

 

Foregoing

antagonism and

separation, one enters into

the harmonious oneness

of all things.

 

from Hua hu Ching, Chapter 3

 

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We’re

increasingly

constrained by computers…

a pixelated abridgement of reality that make

us blind to the complexity of the natural world…

our physical movements have been almost

entirely removed as a factor in our

own existence. Now all we

seem to do is press

buttons.

 

Alexander Langlands

 

 

The

heavens allowed me

To settle myself

On a small piece of land

Looking into the distance

Digging far down

I delight in my own freedom

All who come here

Feel the lids fall

From their eyes

This view

Of the world without end

There is nowhere

to hide

 

Muso Soseki

 

all things are nonabiding

 

All things are set

on a nonabiding basis. The nonabiding basis is

based on nonabiding. If you can reach a thorough understanding

of this, then all things are One Suchness, and you cannot

find even the slightest signs

of abiding. 

 

The whole of

your present activities and behavior

is nonabiding. Once the basis is clear to you,

it will be like having eyes: the sun is shining brightly,

and you can see all kinds of colors and

forms. Isn’t this the mainspring of

transcendent wisdom?

 

Yongjia said,

“Without leaving wherever you are,

there is constant clarity.” No words come closer

to the truth than these. If you start seeking, then we know

that you are unable to see. Just cut off any duality between

“wherever you are” and “constant clarity,” and make

yourself peaceful and serene. Avoid concocting

intellectual understanding and seeking.

As soon as you seek, it is like

grasping at shadows.

 

Yuanwu