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Song’s eyes grew wide. “What? How is …?” “We have a few days to ride. I will tell you that tale.” She hesitated, and then she bit her lip. “I am acceptable to you, like this? I feel strange, not wearing black. As if I have lost … protection.”
Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay
One morning in the zendo as we were all silently sitting zazen, Suzuki Roshi said, “Don’t move. Just die over and over. Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now, because this is your last moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now, because you have no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself—and don’t move.”
Zen Is Right Here
Shunryu Suzuki and David Chadwick
Besides, there’s no denying that the Buddha repeatedly, in that first not-self discourse and elsewhere, does say that consciousness is not-self, something that “you” have to let go of for liberation to happen—which seems quite at odds with the prospect that “you” can happily inhabit the consciousness aggregate once it is disengaged from the other four aggregates.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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