What

is the good

in clinging to slogans,

quotations, and formulas?

This is passing around stale bread.

Just shut the language door,

open your awareness,

and don’t look

back.
 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 50

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I wouldn’t say

that in recent times those who

study the Way do not try hard, but they often

just memorize Zen stories and try to pass judgement on

the ancient and modern Zen masters, picking and choosing among

words and phrases, creating complicated rationalizations

and learning stale slogans. Will they ever be done

with this? If you study Zen like this, all you

will get is a worn out collection

of antiques and

curios.

Yuanwu

ansel adams

 When you do not realize

that you are one with the river, or one

with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is

separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and

death are the same thing. When we realize  this

fact we have no fear of death anymore,

and we have no actual

difficulty in life.
 

Shunryu Suzuki

Detach from all

false entanglements and become

free and clean. After that respectfully practice

all forms of good, and arouse great compassion to bring

benefits to all sentient beings. In all that you do, be

even and balanced and attuned to the inherent

equality of all things — be selfless and

have no attachments. 

Make enlightenment your

standard, and don’t feel bad

if it  is slow in coming.

Take care!

Yuanwu

no longer bound

by what I thought I owned

no longer living in another person’s life

I am whatever I will let myself become

last night I dreamed a flying turtle

wolves inside a mountain     burning arrow

at the bottom of a lake

oracle of the turtle

Buddha’s

teaching cannot be

attained by having ideas

or not having ideas. Only when

the mind of pure practice coincides

with the way will body and mind be calm.

If body and mind are not yet calm, they

will not be at ease. When body and

mind are not at ease, thorns

grow on the path of

realization.

So that

pure practice and

the way coincide, how should

we proceed? Proceed with the mind which

neither grasps nor rejects, the mind unconcerned

with name or gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma with the

thought that it is to benefit others…Do not practice buddha-dharma

for your own sake. Do not practice buddha-dharma for name and

gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain blissful reward.

Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain miraculous

effects. Practice buddha-dharma solely for

the sake of buddha-dharma.

This is the way.

Dogen