‘Doing a koan is a bit like being a fly trying to get through an open window.’
Trevor Leggett
Trevor Leggett (1914 – 2000), was one of the leading writers on Zen Buddhism in the West.
‘Doing a koan is a bit like being a fly trying to get through an open window.’
Trevor Leggett
Leave your innumerable knowing and seeings and understandings, and go to that greatness of space.
On the first day I left the place spotless, having made a last quick circuit picking up the few newly fallen leaves.
‘Enquiry, too, can become a sort of slogan, as blind faith can become a slogan.’
Trevor Leggett
We suffer, we are stuck in some kind of pain, mostly mental — mental torment, mental pain.
‘A good life which has been well lived, well put together and polished, the older it is, the more valuable it is to the world.’
Trevor Leggett
‘Mindfulness is not thinking, this is one of the reasons it is so powerful’
Trevor Leggett
Business of the world is carried on by unreal things.