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One afternoon, Roshi compared zazen to a frog sitting on a lily pad waiting for a fly to come. He did a frog imitation, we all laughed, and he said, “The frog doesn’t know what will come. He just sits and sees what happens next. Then, whatever happens, he is ready. We should sit like this.”
Zen Is Right Now
Shunryu Suzuki and David Chadwick
Zen opened an unknown wellspring that gushed like the watch fire of love, the Roman candle in the heart I first tasted many years ago on the beach in South America: a fount of love that never ceased welling up. As Juan de la Cruz said in the sixteenth century: How well I know that fountain which gushes and flows though it be in the dark of night. After which there is nothing to do but share and serve. In the end it’s all a fairy tale. In the end, all Zen saves us from is ourselves. It may be a little inaccurate but not unreasonable to say that in the end, all Zen is is love.
One Blade of Grass
Henry Shukman
A system* is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something. If you look at that definition closely for a minute, you can see that a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
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