Callum

“It’s hard to find meaning in what we do if at some level it doesn’t help someone else or make someone happier.”
― Matthew D. Lieberman, Social: Why our brains are wired to connect

“But for those who need a system, Chuang Tzu offers the reminder that the fish trap is only needed to catch the fish; once the fish is caught the fish trap is no longer needed so much the better if the fish can be caught without the trap.”
― Ray Grigg, Tao of Zen

“The function of the zazen and koan is to undo the system that contains them.”
― Ray Grigg, Tao of Zen

“Man’s mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself. . . . A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 —Gabriel Marcel”
― Stephen Batchelor, The Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty