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Realize the world of impermanence; this is indeed rare and unthinkable.
Jacques Lacan said of it, "Le réel est impossible."
Alberto Giacometti said of it, "Le jamais vu est la réalité qui est autour de moi."

Sky is gray in Paris. Garden a galaxy of colors. Grass still green; some leaves drop, some hold. Pee ocher yellow green new daily. Paws wet, the tan cat comes in from the rain. Road work in full grinding swing.

Resistance is difficult, not change. Change is the essential nature of all things.

How to proceed? Say yes to what arises, say yes to what falls away.

Le Zen défie toute définition: ni religion, ni philosophie,
ni système de pensée, ni doctrine, ni croyance.
La méditation Zen, pratique de base, nous aide à expérimenter
ce qui ne peut pas être défini: l'instant présent, ici, maintentant.

Zen defies definition: It is not a religion, not a philosophy,
not a system of thought, not a doctrine nor a belief.
Zen meditation, the fundamental practice, helps us
to experience what cannot be defined:
the present moment, here, now.

We may say that Christianity is monotheistic and the Vedanta pantheistic; but we cannot make a similar assertion about Zen. Zen is neither monotheistic nor pantheistic; Zen defies all such designations. Hence there is no object in Zen upon which to fix the thought. Zen is a wafting cloud in the sky. No screw fastens it, no string holds it.

--- D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism