Aqualus Gordon

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture

“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“the finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.”
― Kobayashi Issa