Sublime

Koans will change your idea of who you are, and this will require courage.

Can you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?

if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.

This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.

Koans required a humility that is really a kind of plainness in approaching life without drama and ulterior motives.

He decided that this insight was what made Yantou seem so objective; Yantou didn’t have an idea of Yantou that he had to groom and manicure.

respected Tanchiu Koji Terayama, director of Hitsu Zendo. The English translation of his book’s title is Zen and the Art of Calligraphy (transl. by John Stevens; Penguin Group, 1983).

It seemed that if I took this journey I would be utterly changed. And before setting out, I couldn’t predict what that change would be. That was interesting to me. It encouraged me to set off with only the vaguest directions.

A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.