Zen Thought of the Day

[Szczepankiewicz]

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

[Szczepankiewicz]

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
--John Bunyan

[Szczepankiewicz]

Our practice should be based on the idea of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.
-- Shunryu Suzuki

[mushinmaster]

I think i ran out of thoughts!!!

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

-- Mark Twain

[Szczepankiewicz]

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."

-- Mark Twain

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. "
-Kahlil Gibran

[mushinmaster]

"Upon these fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds, that upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory."

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

[mushinmaster]

The Samurai Creed

I have no parents; I make the Heavens and the Earth my parents.
I have no home; I make the Tan T'ien my home.
I have no divinde power; I make honesty my Divine Power.
I have no means; I make Docility my means.
I have no magic power; I make personality my Magic Power.
I have neither life nor death; I make A Um my Life and Death.

I have no body; I make Stoicism my Body.
I have no eyes; I make The Flash of Lightening my eyes.
I have no ears; I make Sensibility my Ears.
I have no limbs; I make Promptitute my limbs.
I have no laws; I make Self-Protection my Laws.

I have no strategy; I make the Right to Kill and the Right to Restore life my Strategy.
I have no designs; I make Seizing the Opportunity by the Forelock my Designs.
I have no miracles; I make Righteous Laws my Miracle.
I have no principles; I make Adaptability to all circumstances my Principle.
I have no tactics; I make Emptiness and Fullness my Tactics.

I have no talent; I make Ready Wit my Talent.
I have no friends; I make my Mind my Friend.
I have no enemy; I make Incautiousness my Enemy.
I have no armour; I make Benevolence my Armour.
I have no castle; I make Immovable Mind (kime) my Castle.
I have no sword; I make No Mind (mushin) my Sword.

[crazyjoe380]

mine your own, or your own will remind you!

[TracyKarate]

I believe the correct word you are looking for is "mind" and not "mine".

[mushinmaster]

Scratch away all the dirt your being has accumulated and reveal reality in its isness, or in its suchness, or in it nakedness, which corresponds to the Buddhist concept of emptiness.

_bruce lee

[mushinmaster]

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

[Lithp]

good from far.....but far from good.

[mushinmaster]

To tread the sharp edge of a sword
To run on smooth-frozen ice,
One needs no footsteps to follow.
Walk over the cliffs with hands free.

from the gateless gate