Steady Presence

 I will never improve my life by speeding it up.

 The role of an old person is a simplified life. Bingo!

 I can't think my way into right action, but I can act my way into right thinking.

 Simplicity creates order. Order creates simplicity.

 We live in a value system that does not see man as a human being but as a consumer of things.

  T echnology makes major contributions to the minor needs of man.

I n zen everything is in the doing, not in the contemplating.

 O n the cushion. F acing the wall.   W aiting for the bell to ring.

 Oh , that magic feeling.     Nowhere to go. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.

 Things oppress us not because of an objective world, but because of a self-deceiving mind.

  All "thinking" is structured on dualistic grounds. To extricate oneself from the maze of contradictions arising out of ones own thought world is no mean feat. Korobi Nanrei, Zen Priest

 A flow of happiness remarkable for its depth and durability is entirely possible...a place just beyond the ego's reach...a reality less and less obscured as interferences to our reception of it are dissolved.