The MIND has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
D.T. Suzuki
(1870 - 1966)
Source: Zen in the Art of Archery (Vintage Spiritual Classics), Page: vii
The MIND has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
The right shot, at the right moment, does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You are not waiting for fulfillment, but bracing yourself for failure. So long as this is so, you have no choice but to call forth something from yourself that ought to happen independently of you.
When you come to the lessons in the furure you must collect yourself on the way here.
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's hum drum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
