Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-...garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the ...potatoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking... up and down on it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the da...y.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftin...ess in deceitful scheming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And let Reform her columns roll. With thunder peal, and lightening flash.... We'll preach deliverance to the soul. 'Mid proud Oppression's waning crash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind... of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »