Isaac Babel’s short story Di Grasso clearly illustrates the Zen concept according to which, if a room is dark, all you should do to remedy the situation is to turn the light on. Do what you are most afraid of, and this will instantly transform hell into paradise.
Start your training of the power of the spirit from ignoring the idiots. Restrain yourself from talking to idiots and arguing with them. Idiots bored, and you have better things to do, don't let them kill your time and nervous energy.
Zen is humility, it is necessary not to be upset, but to rejoice in what is. That's how it is, and good. Otherwise it would be worse. It is necessary to believe in it and to look for the proof, trying to benefit from what is.
The image of emeli is the image of a person who has learned Zen. When a person is restrained and does not make unnecessary movements, everything becomes wonderful by itself. Don't get ahead of yourself, life tells us. Emelya – a fisherman, his desire takes the fish. Emelya good to the fish and they love it.
When I learned Zen, I realized that if I wanted to save the world, I would never save it. To save the world, I must save it reluctantly... Successful actions restrained.
The real world is a reflection in the mirror of the subjective world. In fact, to live in reality is to live through the looking glass. Or maybe it's the other way around, but does it really matter to someone who has learned Zen?
The point in attaining Zen is to understand that a step into the abyss is the dragon’s descent from the mountains as a waterfall of energy. In this world, fear is something one should seek rather than be afraid of… Fear is a switch turning the light on. Fear is joyful. If fear rejoices, it turns the light on and joy comes. Being afraid of fear is like standing on the edge of an inexistent abyss with your eyes closed.
The hamster running in its wheel is cowardly: it flees its fears. However, if it overcomes its fear and becomes deliriously brave, it will turn around and will run the other way. One who attained Zen should know that all that is vanity of vanities and step aside.
I have learned Zen, and Zen has learned me. If you want to understand the truth, you must become the truth yourself. If you want to understand God, you must become one with God. The chosen one is the avatar of God. Angels are avatars of God.
To understand Zen is very useful for health, because, getting rid of chronic fear, a person will significantly reduce the threat of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer.
Zen is like Jin, that is, truth is a vast ocean that can only be grasped by passing it through one drop at a time. As you become aware of every drop of the ocean of truth, you will experience insight and hear Jin.
The essence of Zen is detachment, when reason leaves body and controls it from aside. This gives freedom from one's animal «EGO», …from emotions and hormones, what allows the reason to get calm and superpower.
Syntalism is called a sect. What's wrong with the word "sect"? Zen is also called a sect. All religions were originally regarded as cults. A sect is a group of people United by a single philosophy and ideology, a group of friends who are similar in spirit and goals. Don't you like the goals, spirit, and philosophy of Syntalism? What is it? Why? Are you an idealist?
In Zen Buddhism, almost any question of the student generated a blow with a stick from the teacher. It is necessary to exclude from the speech questions and subjunctive moods, become similar to the nature.
In Zen, teachers used to beat students with a stick for every second question. This was done in order to accustom students to pain. Many answers are very painful, cowards are afraid to ask questions.
It is believed that immortality is available to those decent people who love God and are willing to serve him and his works. - Who are these worthy people? - First of all, they do not ask stupid questions, because as Zen teaches us, questions generate only lies.
In Zen Buddhism it is believed that the enlightened should not react and look back at the shout. Metaphorically, it means to ignore criticism, temptations, and any attempts to distract you from the true path.
Hope is dangerous, it breeds fear and causes the devil. Love sins the same. - How not to cross the line? "To look within arm's reach is to suppress hope, and with it fear.
Psychotherapy is different, it is false and hypocritical, when idealists play along. And case a bit another. I follow the philosophy of Zen. However although gets hurt, but returns idealists down to earth. And that is beautiful, for the real world is beautiful, though not as perfect as false illusions. In reality, there are typos and errors. Reality is full of uncertainty and chance. But such is life, sir, and life demands humility.
Zen teachers beat a student for every question. And you know why? That the pupil got used that answers happen different, including, and painful. And pain is no reason to fear the truth.
It is very important not to look for benefits, but to see the benefits in everything. When you are not looking for problems and see the benefits of them at the same time. This is Zen.
The rejection of desire is, among other things, the rejection of unwillingness. After all, reluctance is also a desire. You can't run after something that goes away. It is impossible to deny the fact that comes. Giving up desires is engaging in the "here and now".
The idea of order requires harmony, and there are different kinds of harmony. It is beautiful when things are in their place, but it is wrong to think that things are nailed to their places.
There should always be two hopes. One is close by, at arm's length, and the other is high in the sky. The first is absolutely subject to you, and the second is absolutely unattainable to you, but it shows the direction of movement.
Faith the size of a mustard seed moves mountains because we can be sure of anything at arm's length. Everything that happens next creates fear and doubt.
Pride allows you to reach completion. A boundary is what closes a unit into a wheel, turning it into a zero. Pride is what creates the ephemeral borders of the forms of the real world. Pride breeds lies, and therefore the whole real world.
As the smart book teaches us Torah, the path of discipleship is the path of limitations. A full belly is deaf to learning... Having satisfied the hunger, the brain falls asleep. And Zen teachers beat their students for every answer, so that they would know that the truth could be painful and not be afraid of it.
Whoever understands Zen understands the nature of the illusory nature of pleasure and joy. Joys are good, but they are nothing; to pray for them is ignorance. I ate one candy and well, but having eaten a kilogram, you yourself will kill your joy. Praying for candy is stupid.