Comments on: SPARK, Round 7 http://www.laurenflax.net/2010/02/spark-round-7.html Frolic, Food, Footwear, Fiction, and Other Fixations Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:10:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: niceguyted http://www.laurenflax.net/2010/02/spark-round-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-1616 niceguyted Thu, 20 May 2010 18:02:32 +0000 http://www.laurenflax.net/?p=2666#comment-1616 This is one of your pieces that comes to mind for me every once in a while. I was iffy on it when I first read it, but it's stuck on me. Here's my latest reminder (yesterday's quote from my zen-a-day calendar): <em>When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.</em> -Shunryu Suzuki Suzuki is basically Alan Watts' Asian counterpart: he's the Eastern dude who (from what I've read) has done the most to bring Zen to the West. This is one of your pieces that comes to mind for me every once in a while. I was iffy on it when I first read it, but it’s stuck on me. Here’s my latest reminder (yesterday’s quote from my zen-a-day calendar):

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
-Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki is basically Alan Watts’ Asian counterpart: he’s the Eastern dude who (from what I’ve read) has done the most to bring Zen to the West.

]]> By: Scott Shuster http://www.laurenflax.net/2010/02/spark-round-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-1152 Scott Shuster Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:13:28 +0000 http://www.laurenflax.net/?p=2666#comment-1152 Beautiful writing, my dear. Beautiful writing, my dear.

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