A Taste of Zen (Part 1)

The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to

choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

—THOMAS MERTON

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

—EMPEDOCLES

Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God.

—LENNY BRUCE

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

—ZEN IN THE ART OF ARCHERY

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

—ROBERT M. PIRSIG

To thine own self be true.

—Willian Shakespeare