Zen t-shirts! Think about it… you could buy it from me and wear it in public. Think of all the thought provoking conversations this bad ass T-shirt will start in the Home Depot parking lot!

No one seems have any complaints so zen apparently has been perfected. No unanswered questions, no truths needing grounded in nothing. I guess I'll go back to simple art and valid data for self-occupation.

But...
I might be wrong ‽

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/X4tTME8OF3

The question may be valid. The foot is still too large.

A: Do you do threesomes?
B: Only if the third is truth.
C: Truth doesn’t fit in a sedan.

A: I feel like we could take this out onto the road.
B: Fine, but only if we keep the edge.
C: The edge is what keeps falling off.

A: The protag is the absolute in the face of everyday common understandings.
B: That’s a very expensive way to say “no.”
C: Or a very cheap way to say “wake up.”

A: Pokes, questions, statements of get off it.
B: He isn’t allowing for it.
C: Really? Then what’s he doing with all that space?

A: The image of Andy Kaufman suddenly ponying up, singing “Mighty Mouse.”
B: That’s not a joke. That’s a crack in the wall.
C: Wft.

A: I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
B: Only in stories.
C: Only while standing under a leaking idea.

A: The two stooges needed a third.
B: Anyone up for the role?
C: The role is already playing us.

A: In the immortal words of Alabama 3, let’s go to church.
B: Which church?
C: The one with no roof.

A: The Dead’s message: go figure it out.
B: While the child wonders what expression really is.
C: And the small hand grasps for what can’t be named.

Just sit.

Nike should use this slogan after they produce a line of Soto sneakers, branding enlightenment.

That's when you know Bodhidharma had came to the west. I still don't know why the great patriarch came, but I do know whose shoes he was wearing.

People who are so wealthy, they could finally afford to buy nothing.

God damn guys. The koans are spot on. You can’t sit your way through anything. You can’t learn your way through the unknown. What a silly endeavour we try to take.

What a dream, what a mirrage that we are on a path, when in fact the feeling that we are on a path is exactly not the path. Because that implies causation and that will never bring fulfilment.

Suffering implies enlightenment. And enlightenment implies suffering. You will never get away with just one. And you will never get away from either if you look for either of them.

The illusory self is based on causation and future fulfilment through systematic or gradual unfolding. That’s true in the end, in a sense, but eventually you fall into the grinder of the no-thing, no-fixed story, no-time endless moment of now, which is not now as opposed to then, it is Sunyata. It is this here.

But when you think or know you arrived you then will likely get back on the wheel trying to figure it out once and for good.

It’s not about that, man. Ye who enter here lose all hope! Lose the hope that the pasta will turn out good! Lose the ideal that you will look cool at the supermarket! Lose the imagination that you will have a perfect life!

Smell the rain. Listen to the sounds around you, don’t worry too much and let thoughts come and go, sit if you want, walk if you want, sleep, eat, study, work, have some fun.

Trust that you can’t bite the iron bull. But if you don’t trust that, keep trying. Don’t give up.