"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop." ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
"You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough." ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." ~Ram Dass
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one." ~Russian Proverb
"The obstacle is the path." ~Zen Proverb
"The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal." ~Astrid Alauda
"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground." ~Buddha
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" ~Maurice Freehill
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place." ~Zen
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." ~Author Unknown
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." ~Robert M. Pirsig
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." ~Matsuo Basho
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Yesterday I opened my latest addition to Zen part of my bookshelf and read it until i felt asleep. Eugen Herrigels Zen in the art of archery.
Ok, am still at beggining of book, but the most important thing I learned so far is: when archer is going to shoot, he has to stretch the bow without using single muscle. In other words, that is the mystical / spiritual part of Zen archery, you have to stretch bow by your mind. The guy there wrotes that when his master was shooting bow, his arms muscles were completly loose.
Also I learned that shot itself is not so important part of whole process. It can happen. So you stretch the bow without using single muscle, hold it in that possition until you achieve the right state of consciousness and after that shot may come or you lose your concentration and thus you won't be able to hold the bow stretched anymore. It's said that best shot (and for master, the only one which counts) is the one which suprise you as shooter.
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According to this article, some young guy was trying to commit suicide (because of broken heart). Ok, that happens. But there are some things which i don't understand.
I don't understand why news papers / sites always make such big thing from these messages. Article says, that he called police and said: "I'm on balcony, at this address and i'm going to jump." Also it states, that police, fire brigade and psychologist came to the place and after 3minutes of speaking they were able to change mind of wanna-be-jumper guy. For me it's completly stupid message, without any real informational value, or at least article write should use other tone of writing. because it's abvious, that this guy actually wasn't going to jump. I think he wanted only some attention or publicity. I think person who want to jump will jump without any unecessary cals etc.
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