ZEN
"...to surrender to the flow..."
Zen is... well exactly. It is something that has grabbed me along the way somewhere. I like these sites very much, and I'll list more as I discover them.
- The Gateless Gate:
`The great path has no gates,
Thousands of roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate
He walks freely between heaven and earth.'
The Gateless Gate is a famous collection
of koans (a koan is a short story, often a dialog between a student
and a teacher, that points to some essence of the spirit
of Zen). Please feel welcome to read a koan picked at random from the text.
- The Ten Bulls:
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"The 10 Bulls is more than poetry, more than pictures. It is a
revelation of spiritual unfoldment paralleled in every bible of human
existence. May the reader, like the Chinese Patriach, discover the
footprints of his potential self and, carrying the staff of his
purpose and the wine jug of his true desire, frequent the market place
and there enlighten others."
- Beat Topics: Buddhism
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is a good page which has a lot of really cool links into the world of one of my favorite authors, Jack Kerouac, and his friends. Check it out. The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac, is one of my favorite books, even though I just read it a little while ago.
- Enter the ZEN GARDEN ©