In My Own Way: An Autobiography

because there is nothing to lose there is nothing to fear, and that the illusion of having a space of time is for living it up nobly.

far as I know he practiced za-zen, or formal sitting meditation, only occasionally, as I do myself, when the mood is on me. I prefer the more active Zen of walking meditation, archery, t’ai-chi exercises, mantra-chanting, practicing Chinese calligraphy, tea ceremony, swimming, and cooking. Too much za-zen is apt to turn one into a stone Buddha. In

To overcome the association of sex with guilt it was enough for me only to read Havelock Ellis and Georg Groddeck, and since then such problems as I have had seem to have arisen from the qualms and proprieties of other people, who take my lighthearted joy in this aspect of life for lack of maturity and serious commitment.

A Long Undressing,

Ram Dass,

jinko, the fine aloeswood incense which D. T. Suzuki called “the smell of Buddhism.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Because it is of definite advantage to a philosopher to get older,

The Legacy of Asia (1937) to Psychotherapy East and West