scott_see

Compassion and wisdom become one and the same.

"I swear, by my life and my love of [...]

Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.

Learning Zen Buddhism is in ways like learning a language.  Or relearning a language.  Some words are added; some words are banned.  Some words have different meaning.

Look around you.

When I bring myself tightly into the moment, I often feel gratitude to everything that gave rise to what I think of as, "me."  

One day, at the Guanyin Temple, in the midst of breakfast, a monk came to the abbot Zhaozhou  and said: "I have recently become your disciple in this Temple. Please guide me with your teachings, master."

At the bottom of this post there's a link to [...]

I have no questions for my teacher, and that is a very strange feeling.

Ask a Buddhist monk a question, and there's a fair chance the answer will make you think, "What the heck?"