Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.
Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most. '
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.
You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
Every gun sold should require a background check, period.