I’d rather be mad than feel pleasure.

antisthenes

Hannyatara, aka Prajnatara, was female?

fusatsu

I just found out about this term at one of my Flickr contacts photostreams

Fusatsu at the Village Zendo

I guess it is a renewal of precepts ceremony.

Yúnmén Wényǎn 863-949 CE

When Ummon was about to die, he admonished his students in these terms: ‘I have four statements. First is to cut through all mental entanglements, to rely on universal truth. Second is to let go of the body and mind, to shed birth and death. Third is to transcend the absolute, to establish an individual life. Fourth is to haul rocks and carry earth, to perpetuate the life of wisdom.

Yúnmén Wényǎn

huang po died 850 CE

To be absolutely without concepts is called the Wisdom of Dispassion. Every day, whether walking, standing, sitting or lying down, and in all your speech, remain detached from everything within the sphere of phenomena. Whether you speak or merely blink an eye, let it be done with complete dispassion.

Huángbò Xīyùn

Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity – which is only a concept in mind – has not yet begun to understand what it is all about.

from ‘Posthumous Pieces’

Seitan was developed long ago by Zen monks

Seitan gourmet

Wheat gluten

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is said to have been coined by Ohsawa in the early 1960s, but its etymology is uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Japanese sei- (“to be”, “to become”), or -sei (“of the nature of,” “made of,” e.g. in shokubutsu-sei, “made of vegetable”) + tan-, as in tanpaku(shitsu) (“protein”).

seitan steamed vegetables and brown rice

Cease identification with all phenomonality