Zen Story: Worry

 Death was walking toward a city one morning. 

A man asked, “What are you going to do there?”  

Nirvana: On a Roller Coaster

This girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes. I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. - Stephen Wright

Scott Morrison: Intimate with All Things

It seems like just about every evening
here in Satsang, somebody cries.

Sometimes, everybody cries. 
Everyone wants to come home. 

The Zen of Alice in Wonderland

Caterpillar: Who… are… you? 
Alice: Why, I hardly know, sir. 
I’ve changed so much since this morning, you see. 

Zen Story: Banishing a Ghost

 

The wife of a man became very sick. On her deathbed, she said to him, 

'I love you so much! I don’t want to leave you, and I don’t want you to betray me. Promise that you will not see any other women once I die, or I will come back to haunt you.

Question for Scott Morrison: Long Retreat

 August 4, 2007

Dear Scott, 

I’ve been busy the past few weeks looking for a house that I’d planned to buy and live in with my girlfriend. But it all fell apart last weekend when I decided that the house was just one more thing that wouldn’t make me happy and I’d have to put off a long retreat even further.  

Catcher in the Rye: Sensitive Ernie

The Catcher in the Rye is a story by J.D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a novel in 1951. The novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon of teenage rebellion. Catcher in the Rye pdf 

Scott Morrison: Life, On This Breath

Now is our only chance to be happy, to be at peace.

Zen Motorcycles and Old Salamano's Dog

Two of my favorite books are The Stranger by Albert Camus (pdf) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (pdf).

Albert Camus: Old Salamano and his Dog

Albert Camus was a French philosopher. He focused most of his philosophy around existential questions. The absurdity of life, the inevitable ending (death) is highlighted in his acts, his belief that the absurd – life being void of meaning, or man's inability to know that meaning if it were to exist – was something that man should embrace.