Absence Of Quality Is The Essence Of

It's Better To Live With A Sad Truth Than With All The Happy Progress Talk You Get Up Here In The North.

Schools Teach You To Imitate. If You Don't Imitate What The Teacher Wants You Get A Bad Grade. Here, In College, It Was More Sophisticated, Of Course; You Were Supposed To Imitate The Teacher In Such A Way As To Convince The Teacher You Were Not Imitating, But Taking The Essence Of The Instruction And Going Ahead With It On Your Own. That Got You A's. Originality On The Other Hand Could Get You Anything -- From A To F. The Whole Grading System Cautioned Against It.

To An Experienced Zen Buddhist, Asking If One Believes In Zen Or One Believes In The Buddha, Sounds A Little Ludicrous, Like Asking If One Believes In Air Or Water. Similarly Quality Is Not Something You Believe In, Quality Is Something You Experience.

The Most Moral Activity Of All Is The Creation Of Space For Life To Move Around.

When You Want To Hurry Something, That Means You No Longer Care About It And Want To Get On To Other Things.