Zen attacks that one last thing you hold dear: your precious self-conception. It unravels any notion of a freestanding, unconditional "I" and shows it to be a lie, a fabrication, a construction. True realization, the old masters tell us, takes bone-crushing effort. We pulverize the very skeleton of ego—upon which the meat and skin and organs of our illusions hang—and we do it through intense, hurtle-yourself-off-the-cliffs-and-into-the-chasm practice. —Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk More about this quote Tags: perception effort Buddhism Zen self-conception I Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Zen is like chemotherapy for me. It's brutal medicine that makes you go bald, but it beats the alternative. —Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk More about this quote Tags: brutality Buddhism medicine Zen cancer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email