music playing is Song of the Beach Plover
More Zen:
Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and the kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to Jesus asking what he was....When the people carried their puzzlement to the Buddha himself, the answer he gave provided an identity for his entire message.
"Are you a god?" they asked.
"No."
"An angel?"
"No."
"A saint?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
Buddha answered, "I am awake."
~ Huston Smith, The World's Religions ,
"I came to realize that mind
is no other than mountains and rivers
and the great wide earth,
the sun and the moon and the stars. " - Dogen
"If enlightenment is not where you are standing,
where will you look? "
- Zen Saying
"Zen is beyond religion.
Religions remain what they are.
Zen is meditation.
Meditation is the foundation of every religion."
- S. Suzuki
* Some Classic Zen Poems and Haiku
