“the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.” UniverseEmptyIntimateEmptinessInfinityUniqueness Book:A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen Source: A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen
“It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.” KindMadeMightUniverseFoundExistenceStageCivilizationImportanceTerrorHonestlyScalesContactEmptinessPossessedExistentialSheerSoloNeuroticCivilisationTruism Author:Iain Banks
“The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.” MindMayStatesFormLyingUniverseVisionObjectsOne DayAbsolutesSacredPerceiveEmptinessUniquenessBondageTrue NatureElevating Author:Philip Kapleau