Your Daily Zen Practice
Avoid all magnificence that will in a short time be forgotten – Montaigne.
Avoid all magnificence that will in a short time be forgotten – Montaigne.
How can a man come to know himself? Never by thinking, but by doing. Try to do your duty, and you will know at once what you are worth. Johann …
The method of teaching by symbolic acts, such as the plucking of a flower, was extensively used by the Zen masters. For example, when a disciple asked Enkwan a question …
Today’s quote by Socrates. It is not difficult to escape death. But it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.
Slowly the thinker went on his way and asked himself. What is it that you wanted to learn from teachings and teachers, and although they taught you much, what was …
Hourly and earnestly strive to do what falls to your hand with perfect unaffected dignity, with kindliness, freedom and justice, and free your soul from every other imagination. Marcus Aurelius.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. Cervantes.
There is no scent so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures. Henry David Thoreau.