Zen Thought of the Day - Page 2

Ryu (JKD?) · 11-07-2001, 11:38 AM

LOL

Szczepankiewicz · 11-08-2001, 11:51 AM

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-- Krishnamurti

Szczepankiewicz · 11-08-2001, 04:37 PM

The Declaration of Independence guaranteed among other things the right to the pursuit of happiness. Since it is known that ignorance is bliss, any attempts to teach me deprives me of that happiness, and therefore violates my inalienable rights as a human being.
-- Calvin & Hobbes

Szczepankiewicz · 11-09-2001, 10:02 AM

Most appropriate for a web forum!

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. -Horace

Szczepankiewicz · 11-09-2001, 06:08 PM

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.
--Chinese proverb

Szczepankiewicz · 11-09-2001, 06:10 PM

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
--Albert Einstein

Szczepankiewicz · 11-09-2001, 06:13 PM

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well.
--Thomas A Kempis

Szczepankiewicz · 11-09-2001, 06:15 PM

"Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his
finger."
--David Letterman

Szczepankiewicz · 11-09-2001, 06:17 PM

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated
-- Henry Rollins

Oldskulbus · 11-09-2001, 07:20 PM

"I'm not having fun unless I am bleeding"
-Henry Rollins

Szczepankiewicz · 11-12-2001, 11:01 AM

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and
importance of the question.
-- Tennessee Williams

Evilution · 11-12-2001, 11:02 AM

Life sucks, get a helmet - Denis Leary

Szczepankiewicz · 11-12-2001, 03:48 PM

"When ‘the common good’ of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals."

-- Ayn Rand

Szczepankiewicz · 11-13-2001, 10:22 AM

Zen, supposed to be the essence of Buddhism, is closest, not to the
moralizing of Confucius or the philosophizing of [the] Buddha but to the
silent bowing the head before what is neither good nor bad, neither true nor
untrue.
-- Frederick Franck

Szczepankiewicz · 11-15-2001, 09:54 AM

We must be diligent today.
To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
-- The Buddha

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11-08-2001, 11:51 AM	#17 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- Krishnamurti

11-08-2001, 04:37 PM	#18 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	The Declaration of Independence guaranteed among other things the right to the pursuit of happiness. Since it is known that ignorance is bliss, any attempts to teach me deprives me of that happiness, and therefore violates my inalienable rights as a human being. -- Calvin & Hobbes

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Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Most appropriate for a web forum! Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. -Horace

11-09-2001, 06:08 PM	#20 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. --Chinese proverb

11-09-2001, 06:10 PM	#21 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost. --Albert Einstein

11-09-2001, 06:13 PM	#22 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Would to God that we might spend a single day really well. --Thomas A Kempis

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Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	"Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger." --David Letterman

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Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated -- Henry Rollins

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11-12-2001, 03:48 PM	#28 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	"When ‘the common good’ of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals." -- Ayn Rand

11-13-2001, 10:22 AM	#29 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Zen, supposed to be the essence of Buddhism, is closest, not to the moralizing of Confucius or the philosophizing of [the] Buddha but to the silent bowing the head before what is neither good nor bad, neither true nor untrue. -- Frederick Franck

11-15-2001, 09:54 AM	#30 (permalink)
Szczepankiewicz Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Meridian, ID, USA Posts: 4,109 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? -- The Buddha