“The road up and the road down is one and the same. (ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή) —Fragment 60” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . .… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
“Every day Zuigan used to call out to himself, "Master!" and then he answered himself, "Yes, Sir!" And he added, "Awake, Awake!"… — Mumon Copy Share Image
I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And what we’ve been always been is…?” “Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“A koan is like a riddle that’s supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism. For my answer, I wrote about… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I wrote a zen koan once about love, but it didn’t make any sense. That’s how I knew I had accurately described… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
