Ego as the enemy

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder.

(from ''Julius Caesar'' by William Shakespeare)

Attention and zazen

'In the broad sense zazen embraces more than just correct sitting. To enter fully into every action with total attention and clear awareness is no less zazen.''

(From ''The three pillars of Zen'' by Roshi Philip Kapleau, Anchor Books) 

The climb of the renunciates

I raised the Indian flag atop Arunachala,

I was with fifty seven gods once more,

and on the Divine for the second time.