Bret W. Davis

“For Buddhists, the rebirth that is thought to happen after death is not entirely unlike the constant rebirth we undergo during this life. This "moment-to-moment rebirth" is going on all the time. My personality is constantly developing along with my thoughts and emotions, just as the cells of my body are constantly dying off and being replaced—not to mention the smaller molecules that make up cells, and the even smaller processes of particle physics that make up molecules. On a larger scale, my childhood self had to disappear in order for my adult self to come into existence.”
― Bret W Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

“Inspired by Zen, the avant-garde composer John Cage shocked the music world in 1952 when he composed a piece that entailed just sitting in silence at a piano or other instrument(s) without playing a single note for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. He wanted the audience to hear the music that is going on around us all the time.”
― Bret W Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism