Zen Thought of the Day

[mushinmaster]

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill."

-Sun-Tzu

[aseepish]

"I do not wish to achieve immortality through my work.
I wish to achieve it by not dying."
-Woody Allen (Paraphrase)

[Yojimbo]

"The only wisdom you will find at the mountain top is the wisdom you bring there..."

[mushinmaster]

“The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory or defeat but in the perfection of the character of its participants."

-Gichin Funakoshi, founder of shotokan karate

[mushinmaster]

“follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought”

-Unknown

[Szczepankiewicz]

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

[MrPoopy]

Also found in a fortune cookie:
Showoff is often shownup in showdown

[Szczepankiewicz]

There is nothing to be found,
even if I search.
There is nothing to do
but warm myself on my own.
There is nothing to do
but to burn my own body
and light the place around me.
-- Jukichi Yagi

[Szczepankiewicz]

Szczepankiewicz Summarized...

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
-- Macbeth

[Szczepankiewicz]

Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the
lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if
there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light;
light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in
substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.
-- Hui-neng

[crazyjoe380]

if i can beat you up.....


even if i wrong i'm right

-crazy joe

[mushinmaster]

secret of budo

"One day a samurai, a great master of the sword (kendo), set out to learn the secret of swordfighting. This was in the Tokugawa period. At midnight he went to the sanctuary at Kamakura, mounted the long flights of steps leading up to it, and did homage to the god of the place, Hachiman. In Japan Hachiman is a great bodhisattva who has become a patron of Budo. The samurai made his obeisance. Coming back down the steps he sensed, lurking under a big tree, the presence of a monster, facing him. Intuitivly he drew his sword and slew it in the instant; the blood poured out and ran along the ground. He had killed it unconsciously.

The bodhisattva Hachiman had not told him the secret of Budo, but because of his experience on his way back from the sanctuary, the samurai understood it.

Intuition and action must spring forth at the same time."

Taisen Deshimaru
Zen Master

[mushinmaster]

conquer haste

"Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things."

Master Bong Soo Han

[mushinmaster]

"Nothing is impossible to a willing mind."

Books of the Han Dynasty

[mushinmaster]

"Who can make the muddy water clear? Let is be still, and it will gradually become clear.