Institutional Zen: leading figures are mere caricatures who call the rancid “food” and lug their flock into a museum of dusty and artificial objects,
Where they will talk about living art.
Run away from these men with words cut out of glossy paper.
Institutional Zen: leading figures are mere caricatures who call the rancid “food” and lug their flock into a museum of dusty and artificial objects,
Where they will talk about living art.
Run away from these men with words cut out of glossy paper.
Notes & Silence 
There’s a typographical error in your last line if you want to correct it.
Is this not true of all institutionalised pseudo-spirituality – often, the more so the more it claims to avoid structures and systems?
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Thanks Simon…
A run away form
Is what many spiritual seekers (myself included) have longed to fill in.
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You don’t want to do that – it will involve telling them where you are going…!
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Oh ! right…
I’ll surely need advice from a well disguised escape artist…maybe you have names to recommend…
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If you meet a buddha in the road…
A wise teaching from Linji, yet very often i must remind myself he wasn’t just referring to the buddha. He points directly at me, at my intentions, at my smug intellectual thoughts. Then I remember to breathe. Again…
All the best for you this year!
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A smug intellectual thinking also hides behind posts like this one…
Making me think they re totally useless.
Which is why I post them anyway.
Happy new year to you too!
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❤
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