Zen is Now is Life.

“We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

- Alan Watts

Zen is Now. Zen has No Purpose. Zen is Life.

- Ghostwise

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“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there”

- Robert M. Pirsig

When you can bring the top of the mountain to you, you have approached Zen.

- Ghostwise

Life & Purpose

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

- John Burroughs


In short, I still have things I want to do.

- Ghostwise

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

- Robert Byrne


And a life of purpose is to have things you want to do, for others and for yourself.

- Ghostwise