Zen Thought of the Day

[Evilution]

Wish in one hand, shit in the other.

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean.
Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about.
The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship,
you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested,
you'll never define your character. "
--Henry Rollins

[Szczepankiewicz]

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in
all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the
arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to
fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By
its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in
solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies -- all these are private
and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool
information about experiences, but never experiences themselves. From family
to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
--Aldous Huxley

[Szczepankiewicz]

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
-- Erich Fromm

[ronin warrior]

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom,
nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of
concentration; and for him without concentration
there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful,
how can there be happiness?

-Bhagavad Gita

[ronin warrior]

Flow with whatever may happen
and let your mind be free: Stay centered
by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate.

-Chuang-Tzu

[ronin warrior]

A man is born gentle and weak.
At his death he is hard and stiff.
Green plants are tender and filled with sap.
At their death they are withered and dry.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death.
The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle.
A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
The soft and weak will overcome.

-Lao-Tzu

[ronin warrior]

Follow what is right and you will be fortunate.
Do not follow what is right and you will be unfortunate.
The results are only shadows and echoes of our actions.

-From Consul of the Great Yu , 2255 B. C.

[mushinmaster]

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

-Samurai Maxim

[mushinmaster]

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

-Confucius

[jbkenpo]

It's not who's right, but who's left that matters.

Senior Grandmaster Ed Parker

[Szczepankiewicz]

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
-- Albert Schweitzer

The seeker must pursue the problem of knowing with a single minded ferocity
and all the attendant frustrations of a mosquito trying to bite on a bar of
iron.
-- Nancy Wilson Ross

If you don't enter the lion's den, you will never capture the lion.
-- Seung Sahn

[aseepish]

Originally posted by Szczepankiewicz

If you don't enter the lion's den, you will never capture the lion.
-- Seung Sahn

Seung Sahn? I thought that one belongs to Frank Shamrock!

Ok, so that was the obvious joke. Sue me.

-T

[aseepish]

"Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana."
-Julius Henry Marx

[mushinmaster]

"To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity."

-Bruce Lee