December 2011
Zen Won't Solve Your Problems (and Doesn't Have...
In “Actualizing the Fundamental Point” (Genjokoan), Dogen Zenji writes:
Those who have great realization of delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about realization are sentient beings. Further, there are those who continue realizing beyond realization and those who are in delusion throughout delusion.
When we first come to Zen practice, we hope it will solve our...
“Elegy for his Hands
It was late, I was drunk, you were warm
to my hand, I...”
– Robyn Art, Notes About His Hands, Part 4 (via therestisbullshit)
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”
– Mark Twain (via alovet)
“The older I get, the less capable I am of living with anybody. Some might say it...”
– Erospainter
“My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120...”
– ~ Hunter S. Thompson, St. Petersburg Times (February 22, 2005). via ★ I’m slowly turning into you….
Walker Percy Interviews Himself: A reflection on...
Q: What kind of Catholic are you?
A. Bad.
Q: Are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic?
A: I don’t know what that means … . Do you mean do I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief?
Q: Yes.
A: Yes.
Q: How is such a belief possible in this day and age?
A: What else is there?
Q: What do you mean, what else is there? There is humanism, atheism,...
Going To Bed
I check the locks on the front door and the side door, make sure the windows are closed and the heat dialed down. I switch off the computer, turn off the living room lights. I let in the cats. Reverently, I unplug the Christmas tree, leaving Christ and the little animals in the dark. The last thing I do is...
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs (via girlinlondon)
6-word short stories
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -Richard Powers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge
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“When an atheist dies it is wrong to wonder what is happening to them now that...”
– Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, from his HuffPo piece, “When an Atheist Dies: Religious Reflections on Christopher Hitchens’ Death”. ~Trent Gilliss, senior editor (via beingblog)
