What can be said in 140 characters?
Some old Zen masters advised students:
“If you see the Buddha, kill him!”
Let’s use this technique on “haiku”,
particularly the “true” ones.
Some old Zen masters advised students:
“If you see the Buddha, kill him!”
Let’s use this technique on “haiku”,
particularly the “true” ones.
The leaves are falling
While I read Watts’ Way of Zen
With its broken spine
(via Twitter / blueheron)
Original face:
Before birth and after death,
The face you’ve got now
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
“When we view the four directions from a boat on the ocean where no land is in sight, it looks circular and nothing else. However, the ocean is neither round nor square, and its qualities are infinite in variety.”
Completely alone
With nothing to hold onto
Is not a problem
— after Pema Chodron
How can you be sad,
The monk asked Jack Kerouac,
When you have a cat?
