Transform_Jul 24

Đăng bởi lovebird21c - 24 Jul, 2012
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Zen means doing ordinary things willingly and cheerfully.
- R.H Blyth

Of course Zen doesn't "mean" anything. But we can still do ordinary things willingly and cheerfully.

Assignment: Today, do what you do with willingness and cheer and prove to yourself that there are no "ordinary" things.

Reginald Horace Blyth (3 December 1898 – 28 October 1964) was an English author and devotee of Japanese culture. Blyth was born in Essex, England, the son of a railway clerk. In 1916, at the height of World War I, he was imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubs, as a conscientious objector, before working on the Home Office Scheme at Princetown Work Centre in the former and future Dartmoor Prison. After the war he attended the University of London, where he read English and from which he graduated in 1923, with honours. He adopted a vegetarian lifestyle which he maintained throughout his life.

Blyth played the flute, made musical instruments, and taught himself several European languages. He was particularly fond of the music of J.S. Bach. In 1924, he received a teaching certificate from London Day Training College. The same year, he married Annie Bercovitch, a university friend...
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