פרסומים אחרונים במדור "טור אישי"

Take only what is given. Own nothing but your robes and an alms bowl.
Unless, of course, you have the closet space.

Let your mind be as a floating cloud. Let your stillness be as the wooded glen. And sit up straight. You'll never meet the Buddha with posture
like that.

There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that?

To practice Zen and the art of Jewish motorcycle maintenance, do the following: get rid of the motorcycle. What were you thinking?

Learn of the pine from the pine. Learn of the bamboo from the bamboo.
Learn of the kugel from the kugel.

Be aware of your body. Be aware of your perceptions. Keep in mind that not every physical sensation is a symptom of a terminal illness.

If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?

Those who know do not kibbitz. Those who kibbitz do not know.

Do not kvetch. Be a kvetch. Become one with your whining.

The Tao has no expectations. The Tao demands nothing of others. The Tao does not speak. The Tao does not blame. The Tao does not take sides.
The Tao is not Jewish.

The Buddha taught that one should practice loving kindness to all sentient beings. Still, would it kill you to find a nice sentient being
who happens to be Jewish?

In nature, there is no good or bad, better or worse. The wind may blow or not. The flowering branch grows long or short. Do not judge or prefer. Ask only, "Is it good for the Jews?"

To Find the Buddha, look within. Deep inside you are ten thousand

flowers. Each flower blossoms ten thousand times. Each blossom has ten thousand petals. You might want to see a specialist.

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes

To me this sound like "we’re stupid, so we make ourselves miserable. But you have to respect us for it and empathize with us, because we’re miserable."

I honestly can’t understand this romanticizing of the Israeli culture (or lack thereof) especially our endless suffering (which of course, is never of our own fault).

THATCHER
I came to see you about this campaign of yours. The Inquirer's campaign against the Public Transit Company.

KANE
Mr. Thatcher, do you know anything we could use against them?

THATCHER
Still the college boy, aren't you?

KANE
Oh, no, Mr. Thatcher. I was expelled from college, a lot of colleges. You remember. I remember.

THATCHER
Charles. I think I should remind you of a fact that you seem to have forgotten.

KANE
Yes.

THATCHER
You are yourself one of the largest individual stockholders in Public Transit Company.

KANE
Mr. Thatcher, the trouble is you don't realize you're talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who owns eighty-two thousand
three hundred and sixty-four shares of Public Transit prefer, you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with
you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel, his paper should be run out of town and a committee should be formed to boycott him. You
may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars.

THATCHER
My time is too valuable for me...

KANE
On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer. As such, it is my duty, I'll let you in on a little secret, it is also my
pleasure – to see to it that decent, hard-working people of this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just
because they haven't anybody to look after their interests! I'll let you in on another little secret, Mr. Thatcher. I think I'm
the man to do it. You see I have money and property. If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody
else will, maybe somebody without any money or property and that would be too bad.
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"A land which devours its inhabitants" Indeed.