Doing Nothing Is Better Than Doing Nothing.

(Today I learned the meaning of bel far niente - "the beauty of doing nothing")

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing”

- Lao Tzu


You could be reaping the benefits from doing nothing;
Or you could be straining yourself doing nothing.
It is an Art, really.

- Ghostwise

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“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”

- Zen Proverb


Or you could be one with nothing.
It is Spiritual, really.

- Ghostwise

I Seek Wisdom And Foolishness In Equal Measure.

(I just came down from a Zen retreat - a little wiser, a litter more foolish.)

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weight on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.

- The Golden Age of Zen, p. 286


I found that it was one season -
In the green of the tropical jungle.

- Ghostwise

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A little foolishess, enough to enjoy life
and a little wisdom to avoid the errors,
that will do.

- Osho


I went up the hill,
To seek a little more wisdom
And a little more foolishness
In equal measure.

- Ghostwise

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