Who Is My Neighbor?

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 

and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. 

 

But who is my neighbor? 

Zen Story: Without Fear

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality.

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Zen Story: Worry

 Death was walking toward a city one morning. 

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

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 

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. 

Conformity

Ideally, what should be said to every child repeatedly,

throughout his or her school life is something like this: 

Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America

I am trying to remember who introduced me 

to Richard Brautigan. I should know. 

Someone who reads him must be intriguing. 

Trout Fishing in America 
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