The
essential requirement in
studying Zen is concentrated focus.
You don’t engage in any forced actions:
you just keep to the Fundamental.
Right where you stand, you
must pass through to
freedom.
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the beacon within
Life
is the best thing
we have in this existence.
And if we should desire to believe
in something, it should be a beacon within.
This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our
children, our work, our companions,
and, most simply put,
Patti Smith
choice
The line
separating good and evil
passes not through states, nor between
classes, nor between political parties either,
but right through every human heart,
and through all human
hearts.
A. I. Solzhenitsyn
ssshh
when the nation is reigned by darkness
When
people lose sight
of the Tao, codes of morality
and justice are created. When cleverness
and strategies are in use, hypocrites are everywhere.
When families forego natural harmony, parents
become pious and children become dutiful.
When the nation is reigned by darkness,
patriotic advisers
abound.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
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