John Moody

“For while scientist and logician dissect and analyze, the mystic looks for meaning in the whole.”
― Alan W. Watts, The meaning of happiness: The quest for freedom of the spirit in modern psychology & the wisdom of the east

“The first thing you find when you take up meditation is that you are face to face with your own insanity. ... People leave meditation practice because they are unable to bear the pain and the insult.”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen

“In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life; there must be the awakening of a new sense which will review the old things from a hitherto undreamed-of angle of observation.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“KODO SAWAKI ~ To practice the buddha way is not to let our minds wander but to become one with what we’re doing. This is called zanmai (or samadhi) and shikan (or “just doing”). Eating rice isn’t preparation for shitting; shitting isn’t preparation for making manure. And yet these days people think that high school is preparation for college and college is preparation for a good job.”
― Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo