November 22, 2009
Bows and flows of angel hair
Leonard Nimoy's
version of ‘Both Sides Now’
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February 01, 2008
Moon * Fish * Ocean
Moon * Fish * Ocean is a Zen hand game for one, two, or three players. In the strictest Zen interpretation, the game is played by only one person, with one hand, as a koan.
A less poetic, secular version of Moon * Fish * Ocean is popularly known as “Rock, Paper, Scissors.”
The game was developed by Grow-a-brain’s friend & co-blogger Craig Conley
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December 02, 2007
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Driving Directions
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Driving Directions
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
More technical haikus inside
Zen Koan # 33, by Keith Jellum
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March 27, 2007
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi…
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied, "I don't know."
Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
(From the short blog of dead master Robert Anton Wilson)
Tim Adams interviews Robert Pirsig, November 19, 2006
Zen and the Art of Remarkable Blogging
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July 19, 2006
Searching For Water In Water
Zen Art by Monk SongYoon
The City Of Ten Thousand Buddhas, an international Buddhist community and monastery outside Ukiah, California
Drinking tea, eating rice,
I pass my time as it comes;
Looking down at the stream, looking up at the mountains,
How serene and relaxed I feel indeed!
Zen Poems and some other texts of Zen Buddhism
How to Practice Zazen video demonstration found in Dogen Sangha Blog, a blog by the 86 year old Buddhist monk Gudo Wafu Nishijima
Painting of Bodhidharma above by "Sad monk" Qiao Seng. More Unusual Zen Links Here /// Digg this post /// Add it to your del.icio.us
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November 06, 2005
Joshu Washes the Bowl
A monk told Joshu: `I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.'
Joshu asked: `Have you eaten your rice porridge?'
The monk replied: `I have eaten.'
Joshu said: `Then you had better wash your bowl.'
The Book of Zen, flash animation by Tsai Chih Chung
TV Without Sound – The Zen TV Experiment
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March 17, 2005
A moment of Xen
A virtual Zen garden
Optimum Zen Cereal, 200 calories per serving
The Eight Gates of Zen are: zazen, study with a teacher, academic study, liturgy, right action, art practice, body practice and work practice
Monk Selling Junk in Kitano shrine, Kyoto
Ten bulls by Kakuan
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January 09, 2005
Sound of One Koan
Let's face it. Zen is boring. You couldn't find a duller, more tedious practice than Zazen. The philosophy is dry and unexciting. It's amazing to me anyone reads this page at all… (From Sit down and shut up: "My name is Brad and I'm a Hardcore Zen Buddhist")
"Where are you going?"
"I am going wherever my feet go"
Many more Zen Koans here.
Zen stories to tell your neighbors: One day Banzan was walking through a market. He overheard a customer say to the butcher, "Give me the best piece of meat you have." "Everything in my shop is the best," replied the butcher. "You can not find any piece of meat that is not the best." At these words, Banzan was enlightened.
Leonard Cohen, Zen Buddhist. (From "Corpus Mmothra")
Zen Noir, The movie
Zen and the Art of Motorcycling Librarians.
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July 05, 2004
Zen And The Art Of -
Zen cards of reflection, depth, spaciousness and humor. (From “Daily Zen”)
Zen Crossword Puzzle (and the Bovine Inversus version of same)
First there was the “Inquiry into Values” of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, but later it all went down from there. There was Zen and the Art of Bugfixing and Zen And The Art Of The Mosh Pit and Zen and the Art of Fixing a Flat Tire … Eventually, it ended up in Zen & the Art of proper bathroom maintenance and Zen and the art of small claims (?), or even worse, Zen and the art of post traumatic stress disorder and Zen and the art of erotic strangulation…
From the same people, here’s Origami Made Simple - Follow these five simple steps to make your very own folded paper image of George the cat
A quote from Matt Groening: "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come..." More Zen Quotes Here
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March 27, 2004
A Moment of Zen
The Engaged Zen Foundation is a Buddhist ministry founded to foster zazen practice among prisoners and those waiting on Death Row. (From ”Diminished Responsibility”)
Mini Zen Gardening Kit includes a tray, fine sand, decorative rocks, and miniature wooden rake
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January 31, 2004
A zen master lay dying. His monks had gathered around his bed, from the most senior to the most novice monk. The senior monk leaned over to ask the dying master if he had any final words of advice for his monks. The old master slowly opened his eyes and in a weak voice whispered, "Tell them Truth is like a river."The senior monk passed this piece of information in turn to the monk next to him, and it circulated around the room.
When the words reached the youngest monk he asked, "What does he mean, 'Truth is like a river'?"
The question was passed back around the room to the senior monk who leaned over the bed and asked, "Master, what do you mean, 'Truth is like a river'?"
Slowly the master opened his eyes and in a weak voice whispered, "OK, Truth is not like a river."
Click here for good karma - 12/20/03
Yak Rider - 1/14/04
Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun , A virtual temple for the study of Zen (From "Blivet" ) - 8/20/03
Zen Garden in Ryogen-in, and elsewhere
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