Snowfields Australia Quotes & Sayings

Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke about Bodhidharma. After the talk, someone asked him "What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?"
The Dharma teacher said, "About five thousand miles."
The questioner said, "Is that all?"
The Dharma teacher said, "Give or take a few miles."
Later on, Soen-sa asked his student, "What do you think of these answers?"
"Not bad, not good. But the dog runs after the bone."
"How would you answer?"
"I'd say, 'Why do you make a difference?' "
Soen-sa said, "Not bad. Now you ask me."
"What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?"
"Don't you know?"
"I'm listening."
"Bodhidharma sat in Sorim for nine years. I am sitting here now."
The student smiled. — Seung Sahn

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child. — John Shelby Spong

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds. — Robert Frost

Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments. — Ann Leckie

It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'. — Roger Mooking

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise. — Suki Waterhouse

I can't wake up at all without caffeine. — Andrew Rannells

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down. — Mia Hamm

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others. — Umar

It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. — Claire North

My life was still someone else's idea. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs. — Ida Rolf

If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election — Steve Lonegan

Laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, — John Steinbeck