Archive for June, 2010

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein

Zentao is a practical experience, a way of life.
Zentao is not a theory or a religion.

Here are 10 steps to put (with some effort) into a daily practice:

• respect the body and the life of every sentient being
• live naturally loving and respecting the environment to which we belong
• prevent disease constantly taking care of your body-mind rather than intervening after
• cultivate positive emotions such as love, kindness, compassion, joy, empathy, equanimity
• self-control in order to eliminate the occurrence of negative emotions as illusion, anger, desire
• focus on the present detaching your thoughts from past and future
• seek constantly balance and harmony
• meditate and accept the impermanence of things
• meditate on the illusory nature of self and on the false dualistic concept
• strive for union with the everchanging eternal present

Dino Olivieri

My daughter, my son.
Traveling, look in the eyes of foreigners, listen and learn their languages, walks in their shoes, open your eyes and your understanding to each new horizon in front of you.
When you’ve seen a lot of what you consider outside of yourself, then you will have the knowledge that everyone is the whole universe.
Dino Olivieri

Bodhidarma

This Japanese scroll calligraphy of Bodhidharma reads:

直指人心
見性成佛

(from up to low, left to right)

“Zen points directly to the human mind and heart,
see into your nature and become Buddha”.

It was created by Hakuin Ekaku (1685 to 1768).

Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism are one

« I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These are your three greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you reconcile yourself with the meaning of the whole.
Compassionate with yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world. »

(Tao Te Ching, Chapter 67)

“Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. The Wise control themselves.”
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha