Actually there is no real teaching at all for you to chew or to squat over.  But not believing in yourself, you pick up your baggage and go around to other people's houses looking for Zen, looking for Tao, looking for mysteries, looking for awakenings, looking for Buddha, looking for masters, looking for teachers.  You think this is searching for the ultimate and you make this into your religion.  But this is like running blindly.  The more you run, the further away you are.  You just tire yourself, to what benefit in the end? --Zen Master Foyan

 Living in the world yet not clinging to nor forming attachments for the dust of the world is the way of the true Zen student. -Zengetsu (Tang Dynasty heir of Bodhidharma)

  it's only rock'n'roll, but i like it. -mick (Rolling Stones)

No one grumbles among the oyster clans,
And lobsters play their bone guitars all summer.
Only we, with our opposable thumbs, want
Heaven to be, and God to come, again.
There is no end to our grumbling; we want
Comfortable earth and sumptuous Heaven
But the heron standing on one leg in the bog
Drinks his dark rum all day, and is content.

Wanting Sumptuous Heavens -Robert Bly

There's nothing constant in the world,
All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born
Bears in its womb the seeds of change.
Ovid - Metamorphoses

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