Reinstalling Windows Zen.
Go in fear of abstractions.
—Ezra Pound
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
—Lin-Chi
Yakusan's death was just like his life. On the verge of dying he yelled out: "The hall's falling down! The hall's falling down!"
The monks scrambled to prop it up with various things. Yakusan threw up his hands and said: "None of you understand what I mean." And then he died.
—Zen Mondo
"Just ask, just ask!"
says the dew,
and rolls away.
—Issa
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