Zenutiae

“No human thing is of serious importance.”

- Plato

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

… the individual today stands at a crossroad, faced with the choice of whether to pursue the new technology and the endless multiplication of material goods, or to seek out a way that will lead to spiritual responsibility …

- Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986

To shake off the dust of human ambition
I sit on moss in Zen robes of stillness,
While through the window,
In the setting sun of late autumn,
Falling leaves whirl and drop to the stone dais.

- Tesshu Tokusai (1366)