One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life.
If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one.
A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar. . . , the answer is, as long as you live - that short.
When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.
The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.
We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.
Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. . . . They're covering The Doobie Brothers.
And even though we both fly Give each other space and not the evil eye
Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.