Zen Dreams (Day 5 of Back Injury)



Great Book on Related Topic

 I found these quotes and the book to the left just randomly Google-Searching random words: "Zen Dreams". A technique that we used to use by thinking on a topic and just turning to any page in any book and see if our questions were answered (very holographic universe--very background song of exploded stars). Now with the internet...much easier. Anyway, I found these 2 quotes on a lonely blog with only 2 entries: Zen Dreams. One by the brilliant mind of Franz Kafka, another is an Ancient Sanskrit translation by Nobel Prize Winner Octavio Paz.

All of this wisdom from a random google search of random words. Maybe hurting my back was something I need to do every few years to step at least my left foot on the Zen road I so often loose.

You Need Not Leave Your Room

“You need not leave your room.

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

You need not even listen, simply wait.

You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet,

and still, and solitary.

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

- Franz Kafka

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No One Behind, No One Ahead

“No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone’s path,
Easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.”

- Ancient Sanskrit verse adapted by Octavio Paz

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"Look and Ye Shall Find, Furball!"

- Daffy Duck to Buggs Bunny
as he tried to find a pearl and become a "Wealthy Miser".
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