The Little Zen Caledar Catch-Up Post #3

Jul 24, 2002 22:10



Sunday, June 9th

Bellygoat boom
At ache of
Day bang

~ Jack Kerouac

Monday, June 10th

Tears of gratitude
biting into a cucumber -
Dharma flavor.

~ Soen Nakagawa

Tuesday, June 11th

All truths are only
half truths.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Wednesday, June 12th

Like the vanishing dew,
Like a phantom that disappears,
or the flash
of lightning:
so one should think of oneself.

~ Ikkyu

Thursday, June 13th

The more critical reason
dominates, the more impoverished
life becomes... Overvalued
reason has this in common with
political absolutism: under
its dominion, the individual
is pauperized.

~ Carl Gustav Jung

Friday, June 14th

Right now a moment of time is
fleeting by. Capture its reality in
paint! To do that we must put all
else out of our minds. We must
become that moment.

~ Paul Cezanne

Saturday, June 15th

In my grass hut
I stretch out my legs full length.
Such joy
to hear the mountain frogs
singing in the mountains.

~ Ryokan
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