“The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.” PainHealthMastersBuddhismAbsolutesFear Of DeathPrecisionAthleticsSamuraiZen Master Author:Frederick Lenz
“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.” MindMayDoeIdeasPlayGodPainEnjoyInvolvedNegativeAspectLaborAll ThingsAbsolutesEmbraceUnityEarnestnessPlatitudesTruism Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel