Friday, May 20, 2011

Naturalness

"If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice."--Shunryu Suzuki

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you and the road home leads back to yourself. To know yourself is to experience a transcendent reality that is not dependent on a social standard of good or evil, better or worse, or fame and profit.

Dante wrote, "I love to doubt as well as know." The purpose of Zen is to learn to doubt everything.

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