http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/heads/ Smart thinking about digital culture, media, and the Internet. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:50:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/heads/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 jonl Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:38:21 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/heads/#comment-1222 I'm honored that you found your way to my blog! Thanks for the great quote - I'm working it right now...! I’m honored that you found your way to my blog! Thanks for the great quote – I’m working it right now…!

]]> http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/heads/comment-page-1/#comment-1221 Flint Sparks Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:00:23 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/06/heads/#comment-1221 People don't often share this kind of stuff, especially as it regards politics and business, because without a meditation practice it just seems strange or confusing. Here is a great quote from John Tarrant, a Zen teacher with a good bit of wisdom in this area. This was part of an interview in "Inquiring Mind," a publication for the Insight Buddhist community. Don't miss the last line. Memorize it! "Zen people talk about emptiness because when you awaken, the maps that hold your beliefs are suddenly gone. You also notice that new maps appear in the mind, even without encouragement from you. And as new maps appear, you can take them as provisional... The Zen task is to open to the gates of the world beyond our prejudices. Like the Buddha, we can step away from everything we are certain about. I think this possibility is the best contribution we can make to healing the flaws in consciousness and helping the world. Unkindness comes out of certainty; when we throw out certainty, we have the bare reality of consciousness, and another name for that is love." Truly!! People don’t often share this kind of stuff, especially as it regards politics and business, because without a meditation practice it just seems strange or confusing. Here is a great quote from John Tarrant, a Zen teacher with a good bit of wisdom in this area. This was part of an interview in “Inquiring Mind,” a publication for the Insight Buddhist community. Don’t miss the last line. Memorize it!
“Zen people talk about emptiness because when you awaken, the maps that hold your beliefs are suddenly gone. You also notice that new maps appear in the mind, even without encouragement from you. And as new maps appear, you can take them as provisional… The Zen task is to open to the gates of the world beyond our prejudices. Like the Buddha, we can step away from everything we are certain about. I think this possibility is the best contribution we can make to healing the flaws in consciousness and helping the world. Unkindness comes out of certainty; when we throw out certainty, we have the bare reality of consciousness, and another name for that is love.” Truly!!

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