#zen notes

[milesbutterball]

First Zen Institute

[visuallyy]

"I lost the boundary of my physical body. I had my skin, of course, but I felt I was standing in the center of the cosmos. I saw people coming toward me, but all were the same man. All were myself. I had never known this world before. I had believed that I was created, but now I must change my opinion: I was never created; I was the cosmos. No individual existed." Zen Notes

[theparisreview]

A young Gary Snyder, on being a fire lookout. From the first issue of Zen Notes, November 1954. (via)