“Zen abhors media, even the intellectual medium; it is primarily and ultimately a discipline and an experience, which is dependent upon no explanation.”
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D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reasons Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is a fact an no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for a living? To live – is that not enough? Let us then [...]
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D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“The middle way is where there is neither middle nor two sides. When you are fettered by the objective world, you have one side; when you are disturbed in your own mind, you have the other side. When neither of these exists, there is no middle part and this is the middle way.”
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Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
“There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, quietly altered for having known us.”
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Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
“To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses - How they evolved, how they can be extended, what their limits are, to which ones we have attached taboos, and what they can teach us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.”
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