From ‘Teachings of Zen’
Edited by Thomas Cleary
When you investigate this matter, the extreme
limit of effort is like planting flowers in the
sky or fishing for the moon in the water: there
is simply no place for you to set about it, no
place to apply your mind. Time and again people
beat the drum of retreat as soon as [...]
And the Horse Came Back
Once there lived a father and son. They were poor and lived a hard life.
One day their only horse ran away. Their fellow villagers lamented saying,
“What will you do now? That was your only horse. How will you farm your
land. Youare so unlucky.” To this the poor farmer said, “We’ll see.”
A [...]
gill posted on Allspirit:
Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.
When something is right, something else is wrong.
Knowledge and ignorance depend on each other.
It has been like this since the beginning.
How could it be otherwise now?
Wanting to toss out one and hold onto the other
makes for a ridiculous comedy.
You must still deal with everything ever-changing,
even when [...]
