Saturday, 26 September 2020

396. ZEN REMARKS

 396. Suppose you stand at a window of your house and gaze out upon the world. Is it simply out there?  Or does it press in upon you and, perhaps, beyond you? And now where are you, both in relation to yourself and the world? 

395. ZEN REMARKS

 395. Do you stand at a window in your room and survey the world vast and wide spread out before you? Is that world simply the object of an act of spontaneous extroversion? Is your relation to the vast wide world one of subject to object? Is the world -- your world -- vast and wide as it is, limited to what you can see, hear, taste, touch and smell?

Thursday, 24 September 2020

394. ZEN REMARKS

 394. From what vantage point do you look out and see that the world is vast and wide?