Hakuin says that “it is with great respect and deep reverence that I urge all of you superior seekers who investigate the secret depths to be as earnest in penetrating and clarifying the self as you would be in putting out a fire on top of your head.”
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-cafard-zen-anarchy
Ay caramba! Are the zenniths anarchrists?
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Know your enemy - you're going to have to work with the blighter somehow - and who the hell hid my fire extinguisher?!
Zen Anarchy - Gah, rather a mellow sort of thing, but perhaps the Professor will like it. (Carl Barks, Lost in the Andes )
They pinched that from the Phena Sutta.
"Thus a monk, persistence aroused,
should view the aggregates
by day & by night,
mindful,
alert;
should discard all fetters;
should make himself
his own refuge;
should live as if
his head were on fire —
in hopes of the state
with no falling away."