Zen Thought of the Day

[Goku]

Linkin Park, a group of Zen Masters?

"Forfeit the Game before somebody else takes you out of the frame and puts you're name to shame."
Mike from Linkin Park (Song Name: Points of Authority)

You can try and get so far but in the end all humans are limited...
Me learning from Chester of Linkin Park

"How do you expect that I will know what to do,?
When all I know, is what you're telling me to!"
Mike from Linkin Park (Song Name: By Myself)

ADVICE!!!
Note that listening to Linkin Park may create emotional feeling and understandment of what they say is really true. This may create a bond and draw you to listen Linkin Park all day long without ever getting tired of it. If this happens to you, don't forget that you're not alone and there are thousands of people out there that are "Hooked on Linkin Park" too...

[mushinmaster]

Linkin Park is the ultimate Zen!

[mushinmaster]

mushin

Although it does not
mindfully keep gaurd,
In the small mountain fields
the scarecrow
does not stand in vain.

Haiku by Bukkoku, c. 17th Century

[Szczepankiewicz]

Zen is like a man high up in a tree hanging from a branch with his mouth. His hands can't grasp a bough, his feet won't reach one. Under the tree is another man who asks him, "What is the innermost truth of the Buddha's teachings?" If he doesn't answer, he evades his duty. What should he do?
-- Zen koan

[mushinmaster]

Drop down with a tackle and then beat the snot out of the other man for not helping him out

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Language...that meager and fragile thread ... by which the little surface corners
and edges of men's secret and solitary lives may be joined for an instant
now and then before sinking back into the darkness where the spirit cried
for the first time and was not heard and will cry for the last time and will not be heard then either ... ."

-- Faulkner

[mushinmaster]

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

Tzu Lu

[mushinmaster]

The essence of life is struggle and its goal domination. There are higher goals and deeper meanings, but they exist only within the mind of man. The reality of life is war.

-From the Way and the Power, Frederick Lovret

[JaredExtreme]

Cracker, that's my signature! I think Durden got it from Ralph Waldo Emerson though.

"Master the Divine Art of Peace, and no enemy will dare challenge you." - Morihei Ueshiba

[Szczepankiewicz]

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
--Voltaire

[mushinmaster]

100th Thought!

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the decorative branches, flowers, or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand the blossomings.

-Bruce Lee

[Szczepankiewicz]

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Szczepankiewicz]

It is useless to show the gold piece to a cat.
-- Zen saying

[JaredExtreme]

"I bet she gives great helmet." - Spaceballs

[Arrgh]

Today was tommorrow yesterday. - Ozzy Osbourne

I never asked for much from life, that's what I got. - Mark Evans

You ask me if I have a God complex, let me tell you something... I am God. - Alec Baldwin (Malice)

I can't believe being kind-hearted is a fault. - Cho Yi Hang (The Bride With White Hair)

I would rather spend eternity as a ghost by your side, than to enter paradise without you. - Chow Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Yep, my wontons really do rule. - Me(at a party, being immodest about my wonton recipe, just in case you were wondering)