The Substance of Thought https://www.lyricalzen.com en-us Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:25:55 GMT https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-trap-of-visibility/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-trap-of-visibility/ A bilingual reflection on the danger of becoming conveniently consumable, anchored by 無用終年. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:14:31 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments English Chinese https://www.lyricalzen.com/in-service-of-meaning/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/in-service-of-meaning/ Time and time again, you will be reminded that life is fleeting as you bask in a world of impermanence. Humanity’s crisis is, by all means, one of meaning…⁣ ⁣ Herein, every emotio… Sat, 29 Aug 2020 16:26:19 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/ancestral-mathematics/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/ancestral-mathematics/ In order to be born, you needed: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 second great-grandparents 32 third great-grandparents 64 fourth great-grandparents 128 fifth grea… Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:41:06 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/future-geneses/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/future-geneses/ Enveloped by calescent nights above the nubilous vista, I sudorificly build the armamentarium of future geneses. Let us breathe both passion and pathos in this self-exposed exile…… Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:41:39 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/i-see/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/i-see/ I see you. I see your struggle. I see me. — Lyrical Zen Mon, 06 Aug 2018 04:31:44 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Quotes Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/find-us-again/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/find-us-again/ A cruel world obliged us to travail sub rosa; to sacrifice the heart for a greater calling. Yet below the coruscating spine of a nebulous sky, I reminisce the unforgeable paraph o… Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:23:17 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/a-commitment-to-understanding/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/a-commitment-to-understanding/ In all these years working with street gangs and the victims of both structural and behavioral violence, we have learned one thing: it takes commitment to transform pain and awake… Sun, 06 May 2018 16:33:41 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/life-and-will/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/life-and-will/ Life is already flowing towards us and through us; our responsibility is to meet it intentionally, this is what is called — will . – Lyrical Zen Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:53:37 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Moments English https://www.lyricalzen.com/one-out-of-many/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/one-out-of-many/ When we navigate the currents of the soul, we find ourselves within our ancestral consciousness. We are the composite of all events, all happenstance and all circumstances that ha… Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:26:57 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Moments English https://www.lyricalzen.com/true-wealth-is-the-freedom-to-be-generous/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/true-wealth-is-the-freedom-to-be-generous/ True wealth is the freedom to be generous. — Lyrical Zen Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:59:21 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Moments Quotes English https://www.lyricalzen.com/love-is-the-place-we-arrive-at-where-we-do-not-want-anything-from-another-person-but-we-want-to-give-who-we-are-to-that-other-person-in-order-to-accomplish-companionship-and-understanding-one-must/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/love-is-the-place-we-arrive-at-where-we-do-not-want-anything-from-another-person-but-we-want-to-give-who-we-are-to-that-other-person-in-order-to-accomplish-companionship-and-understanding-one-must/ Love is the place we arrive at where we do not want anything from another person, but we want to give who we are to that other person. In order to accomplish companionship and und… Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:42:44 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/free-in-your-destiny/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/free-in-your-destiny/ There is profound tristesse in observing a person that you love make others and yourself so happy, yet they’re unable to bring just as much joy to themselves; there is agonizing h… Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:26:43 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/standing-alone/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/standing-alone/ Stand for righteousness even if it means standing alone. — Lyrical Zen Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:48:30 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Quotes Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/dwell-in-the-ocean-of-living-truth/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/dwell-in-the-ocean-of-living-truth/ A life that dwells in the ocean of living truth, finds peace beneath the tumbling waves. Sacrifices are made by those who comprehend the inevitable, so as to protect loved ones fr… Sat, 17 Feb 2018 02:29:51 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/two-loving-souls/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/two-loving-souls/ When two loving souls intertwine as one, they enter the numinous nature of the multiverse… When two loving souls depart from one another, they enter the irremediable sorrow of lif… Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:57:53 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/concrete-haze-la-calle-del-humo/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/concrete-haze-la-calle-del-humo/ English – Synopsis Lyrical Zen Productions presents the feature film “Concrete Haze”, a story of conflict and survival based on real events in the poverty-stricken outskirts of Ca… Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:24:13 GMT Lyrical Zen Video English https://www.lyricalzen.com/live-for-the-questions/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/live-for-the-questions/ Be patient with the unsolved in your heart. Live for the questions as you seek the answers… — Lyrical Zen Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:48:15 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Quotes Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/no-enemy-to-be/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/no-enemy-to-be/ You don’t need an enemy to be yourself. Be yourself anywhere with anyone… — Lyrical Zen Wed, 07 Feb 2018 23:16:14 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Quotes Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-greatest-feats-often-materialize-themselves-in-the-unseen-the-unspoken-and-the-unknown/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-greatest-feats-often-materialize-themselves-in-the-unseen-the-unspoken-and-the-unknown/ The greatest feats often materialize themselves in the unseen, the unspoken, and the unknown… — Lyrical Zen Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:37:45 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Quotes Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/a-place-of-broken-souls/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/a-place-of-broken-souls/ There exists a place of broken and unrewarded souls; a place of wounded wanderers clinging on to the flickering lamp of their own dignity; a place of innumerable tales of systemat… Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:18:35 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/if-i-refuse-to-dream-in-silence/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/if-i-refuse-to-dream-in-silence/ If I refuse to dream in silence it is because persistence is a type of love that endures the test of time… — Lyrical Zen Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:21:01 GMT Lyrical Zen Moments Image English https://www.lyricalzen.com/alone-together/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/alone-together/ In a world often depleted of mercy, we must face a vast aloneness together. For those of us left with scant little but a dreaming heart, there is multiplicity in the meshing of ou… Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:43:10 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Moments English https://www.lyricalzen.com/loving-in-silence/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/loving-in-silence/ T ears submerged in an ocean of silence, after so many years, become the mute messengers of an undeclared love; an inaudible spirit searching to appease the unreachable sadness in… Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:21:31 GMT Lyrical Zen Words English https://www.lyricalzen.com/lifes-greatest-liberty/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/lifes-greatest-liberty/ Life’s greatest liberty is having nothing to prove. 真正的自由在於內心世界的灑脫。 — Lyrical Zen Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:59:08 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Moments Quotes English Chinese https://www.lyricalzen.com/fierce-never-violent/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/fierce-never-violent/ Be fierce but never violent, Be sensitive but never weak, Be forgiving but never forget, Be persistent but never impatient, Be demanding but never needy, Be visionary but never lo… Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:15:42 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Quotes English https://www.lyricalzen.com/北大足音/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/北大足音/ 今年是您110岁的生日，很荣幸可以写信祝福您。每当回忆起和您共同度过的美好时光，心中便会充满了自豪与感激。在和您相处的日子里，一起学习和生活，点点滴滴，至今记忆犹新：还记得老师的谆谆教导，还记得和朋友们的朝夕相处，您不仅让我学到很多知识，也给了我许多的启发和体会，留下了深刻的印象。 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:48:16 GMT Lyrical Zen Words Chinese https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-tears-of-men/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-tears-of-men/ A man in my position is expected to wear a mask for so long that he forgets who was beneath it. They said that speaking of romance and matters of the heart would make a man weak –… Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:17:26 GMT Lyrical Zen Words English https://www.lyricalzen.com/an-apology-to-my-loved-ones/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/an-apology-to-my-loved-ones/ W riting this at a time so still that the year seemed not to have begun at all. It’s amazing how much one is able to recollect simply by trying – whether musing the past or dreami… Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:43:36 GMT Lyrical Zen Words English https://www.lyricalzen.com/lettre-dun-petit-fils/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/lettre-dun-petit-fils/ C ‘est avec grande tristesse que je n’ai pas pu t’accompagner plus longtemps, en écrivant ce mot, un vent de nostalgie me frappe en plein cœur de la nuit…Pourtant, j’arrive à revi… Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:29:01 GMT Lyrical Zen Words French https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-mathematics-of-love/ https://www.lyricalzen.com/the-mathematics-of-love/ M athematically speaking, I failed in solving the elusive equation of love. I wanted to subtract myself from the equation in order to divide the pains from the joys and multiply t… Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:59:48 GMT Lyrical Zen Words English