Saturday, March 19, 2005
Another Wet March Morning
Zen thoughts and Haikus
Matt Conigliaro - Legal facts about the Schiavo Case
Non-attachment
"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of A Liberated One."
---Wan Ling Record of The Zen Master Huang Po (translated by John Blofeld)
"Not even a hat--
And cold rain falling on me?
Tut-tut! Think of that!
---Basho (translated by Harold Henderson)
Is-Ness
"The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection
The water has no mind to receive their image."
---Zenrin Kushu
Now-ness
"Nothing exists; all things are becoming"
--- Reiho Masunaga, The Soto Approach to Zen
The Zen Eye
"And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true."
---Rainer Maria Rilke
Attribution: All quotations are from The World of Zen by Nancy Wilson Ross
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Matt Conigliaro's Abstract Appeal
For those who are interested in a balanced, dispassionate summary of the Terri Schiavo case, Matt Conigliaro's "Abstract Appeal-Web Log Devoted to Florida Law and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals" is the best I have found on the world wide web. Mr. Conigliaro, a Florida attorney, has done a masterful job.
Abstract Appeal
Matt Conigliaro - Legal facts about the Schiavo Case
Non-attachment
"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of A Liberated One."
---Wan Ling Record of The Zen Master Huang Po (translated by John Blofeld)
"Not even a hat--
And cold rain falling on me?
Tut-tut! Think of that!
---Basho (translated by Harold Henderson)
Is-Ness
"The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection
The water has no mind to receive their image."
---Zenrin Kushu
Now-ness
"Nothing exists; all things are becoming"
--- Reiho Masunaga, The Soto Approach to Zen
The Zen Eye
"And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true."
---Rainer Maria Rilke
Attribution: All quotations are from The World of Zen by Nancy Wilson Ross
Matt Conigliaro's Abstract Appeal
For those who are interested in a balanced, dispassionate summary of the Terri Schiavo case, Matt Conigliaro's "Abstract Appeal-Web Log Devoted to Florida Law and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals" is the best I have found on the world wide web. Mr. Conigliaro, a Florida attorney, has done a masterful job.
Abstract Appeal
