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We say, “Everything comes out of emptiness.” One whole river or one whole mind is emptiness. When we reach this understanding we find the true meaning of our life. When we reach this understanding we can see the beauty of human life.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
Instead, it’s easier to dismiss what I say and persist in thinking that what you recognize as your life is “real” and that it somehow simply “happened.” You had nothing—or very little—to do with it. And THAT, I am here to tell you, is the source, the root cause of ALL of your problems. Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is actually very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.
Are You Ready to Succeed?
Srikumar S. Rao
I began to do zazen daily. Over the weeks I grew to love it: a sense of clarity, a watery quality to everything, would come on. Zen was done with the eyes open, which made one’s sense of the world while meditating more vivid. I’d feel a warmth, a pressure in my chest. Sometimes, for no reason, I’d start crying. Sometimes a strange wind seemed to riffle through me and through the surroundings as I sat, reminding me of Sappho’s famous line about love shaking her the way the wind shakes the oak trees on the mountainside.
One Blade of Grass
Henry Shukman
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