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 »
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 »
Is that the wind dying? O no; It's only two devils, that blow... Through a murderer's bones, to and fro, In the ghosts' moonshine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan... To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie. Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre, As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse, And evere honoured for his worthynesse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With hym ther rood a gentil pardoner Of Rouncivale, his freend and his compeer,... That streight was comen fro the court of Rome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;... Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »