...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Zen is not a religion, not a dogma, not a creed. Zen is not even a quest, an inquiry; it is non-philosophical. The fundemental of the Zen approach is that all is as it should be, nothing is missing, This very moment everything is perfect.
A seed is a miser, confined to himself, and a flower is a spendthrift.
existence has accepted the energy of sex as the starting point of creation. And your holy men call it sinful... If God considers sex as sin, then there is no greater sinner than God...
sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests, ...
humans have become more and more lustful and indulgent because of the continuous demand for the suppression of sex by the priests.
...suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself - free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
And sometimes sound is visual and when things move really fast there are no distinctions between the senses because it is pure love.