~ Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together ~  ~ We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we
play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment ~ ~ Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ~ ~ Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ~ ~ We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. ~ ~ We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~ ~ Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~ ~ I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is ~ ~ In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. ~ ~ Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ~ ~ I owe my solitude to other people. ~ ~ A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. ~ ~ Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ~ ~ The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes. ~ ~ I owe my solitude to other people. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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