Zen

I bought a zen book today. I've always wanted to. So I did.

~Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find it.

I like that. I'm going to like this Zen book I think. Perhaps it will help me...and I will be able to sleep better at night.

I read this one somewhere else:

~You can't fall off the floor.

It's so simple. Yet you still find yourself thinking about it and going "huh". You can't really think too much about these things though. You just have to take it in, understand the meaning, and let it go. One shouldn't over-analyze.

I need to learn how to not over-analyze things. That's what makes me go crazy.

~The reverse side has a reverse side.

Yes. Yes it does.

I've been having a lot of... trouble lately. There's really no way to solve it...unless obviously things change. I can't just stop feeling the way I feel and stop thinking the way I think. That's like telling a duck it can't swim and quack and stuff. Maybe under your watchful eye the duck won't do it, but it's gonna start swimming and quacking once you turn your back. Perhaps the duck realizes it's not really getting anywhere in life by all this swimming and quacking at the moment....but that's what he believes he was meant to do. Swim and quack. So he continues to do it. If he keeps doing that, perhaps something good will happen...or maybe something bad. Either way, something happens...and the duck did what he believed he ought to do.

Maybe that was a little out there. It makes sense to me. I tend to come up with obscure, yet oddly pretty good analogies. So I think.

~By daily dying I have come to be.

Yep. Pretty much.

~AM