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Zen Soup
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Boldt / Laurence G
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1997
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If, as the I Ching says, thoughts are spirits, then this collection of highly distilled thoughts from history?s greatest philosophers and religious figures will certainly put you in good spirits. Laurence Boldt has long made a practice of applying Zen principles to everyday life. Here he applies wisdom from all corners of the world to twenty-five aspects, or qualities, associated with the Zen tradition. The result is a soup of the most hearty and wholesome kind, well-seasoned with age, and filled with delicious surprises: ?Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, thence lies your vocation.? Aristotle ?A man with outward courage dares to die: A man with inward courage dares to live.? Lao Tzu You?ll also find Flip Wilson on living in the moment; Will Rogers on the beginner?s mind; Helen Keller on courage; Chekhov on self-confidence; and Colette on joy. Each chapter includes an entertaining and informative essay that explains the principle and its...

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COMPASS ZEN SOUP

Laurence G. Boldt is a writer and career consultant based in the San Francisco Bay area. He is the author of Zen and the Art of Making a Living and How to Find the Work You Love, both available in Penguin Compass.

To Kim and Susan

PREFACE

A book of quotes such as this is a collection of highly distilled thoughts. According to the I Ching, that most profound classic of Chinese literature, thoughts are spirits. I am confident that reading these quotes will put you in the company of good spirits. For me, many have become old and trusted friends. At various points in my life, they have helped me to arouse courage, confirm direction, persist in effort, let go of attachment, and have a good laugh at myself. I am happy to be able to share them with you and hope that you will be blessed by them, as I have been.

This book is organized around twenty-five aspects, or qualities, associated with the Zen tradition. After a brief introductory essay comes a collection of quotes that illuminate each quality. While many come out of the Zen literature or other Eastern sources, most are from our own Western tradition. The diversity of sources highlights the timeless and universal nature of these principles.

Of course, to speak of Zen in terms of thoughts or qualities is to miss it altogether. Yet what we think does make a difference. Thoughts can point us in the right direction or just as easily lead us astray. In the words of a familiar Zen saying: In a thought of Buddha, I embrace Nirvana; in a thought of evil, I open the Gates of Hell. It is my sincere hope that these thoughts may serve to remind you of your own Buddha nature.

BE HERE NOW

If Zen is telling us anything, it is to be here now, to live in this moment. Simple enough. So what stops us? To live in the moment, we must go out of our minds. The mind, with its guilt and resentment about the past and its fears and hopes for the future, the mind that confuses thoughts about people, things, and events with the people, things, and events themselvesmust be transcended. Out of the mind and into direct, immediate experiencethis is the message of Zen.

Zen masters have often used dramatic techniques, including verbal insults, physical violence, and absurd theatrics, to jolt students out of mental preoccupation and thrust them back into the moment. Zen is forever shouting: Wake up! Wake up! Wake Up! Stop the mind already! Be here! It helps to sit still and meditate. Yet Zen is even more concerned with being here now in the midst of activity. Again and again, Zen teachers exhort the principle of mo chich chu, or going ahead without hesitation. Just do what you are doing without thinking about it. Just be where you are without holding on or running away. Give up judging and spectating and dive into this moment. If you cant find it here, where will you go to find it? And when?

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Paradise is where I am.VOLTAIRE

In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, dont wobble.YUN-MEN

If you want to be happy, be.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

ALAN WATTS

I think that what were seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The Tao is near and people seek it far away.

MENCIUS

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.ALBERT CAMUS

May you live all the days of your life.

JONATHAN SWIFT

I exist as I am, that is enough.

WALT WHITMAN

The present is great with the future.

GOTTFRIED LEIBNITZ

When one is engaged in a favorite pursuit or a subject absorbingly interesting, the normal conception of labor or time and artificial social distinctions disappear from the mind.G. KOIZUMI

Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

What you see is what you get.FLIP WILSON

We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely surethe eternal present, for it is always now.WILLIAM PHELPS

To be where we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

BEGINNERS MIND

The ultimate beginners mind is that of the child. Children learn so rapidly because they are neither afraid of not knowing nor convinced that they already know what they dont. The rest of us could take a lesson. After a certain age, many of us no longer seek out new knowledge or experience. On the contrary, we take pains to avoid the exposure of ignorance and the ridicule we fear will accompany it. In our defensiveness, we act as though we know, even when we know we dont. When we love and accept ourselves as we are, we engage in the vulnerable act of learning without the fear of looking foolish. We can profit from the knowledge and experience of others because we love ourselves enough to put our desire to grow ahead of defending our ignorance.

The beginners mind applies not only to learning new skills, activities, or information but to all we think we know about life. Many of us walk around with deeply ingrained beliefs that limit our experience. For example, we think: If things get too good, something bad will happen, or You cant really trust people, or You cant really do or have what you want in life. Of course, we can insist on these kinds of beliefs, select out supportive incidents from the past, and build cases for why they are so; but this only shuts the door on new experience. As only an empty cup can be filled, so only a heart emptied of the pride of what it thinks it knows can be open to new experience and receive the gifts of wisdom. When we embrace the humility to meet life head-on, without the baggage of what we think we know, we make room for ourselves to grow.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.LAO-TZU

Its what you learn after you know it all that counts.JOHN WOODEN

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that aint so.MARK TWAIN

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. -G. K. CHESTERTON

Who has no faults? To err and yet be able to correct it is best of all.YAN-WU

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased ... This is true not only of competition with others, but competition with yourself.

J. KRISHNAMURTI

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

PAUL BRUNTON

He who Knows what he is Told, must know a Lot of Things that Are Not So.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

He who can copy can do.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.TYRON EDWARDS

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