Zen 禅 - A reflection

This is a beautiful modern Zen classics:

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."  - Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind / Suzuki Roshi
Reference:
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Shunryu-Suzuki/dp/1590308492/ref=pd_sim_b_1/179-3144804-4631810#reader_1590308492
When i was in high school, i appreciate poetry/poems, especially related to 'chan' 禅. later i found reading classic Chinese literature, the aesthetics in the poems by poets who were influenced by Zen Buddhism 禅宗 gave me peaceful feeling when reading it - i was facinated by the let-go of eight worldly conditions of these practitioners.  When i was interested in Buddhism, besides Jataka Stories, the Zen stories made me laugh, but the meanings could be as deep as the ocean - that was my impressions. 

I thought this is a beautiful Zen Center and i added into my favourite website of  this blogroll:
San Francisco Zen Center - Tassajara
http://www.sfzc.org/tassajara/

Kobun Chino Otogawa - Zen Master/Teacher
Much has been broadcast of the technologgy icon, the late Steve Jobs whose great contribution to ICT and human innovations in technology.  I remember while i was returning from India last November, in the airflight, i read a local newspapers reported how the simple minded local folks was somewhat believed in a local medium of praying for the late Steve Jobs shift reincarnation, the participants had to bite an apple (and thrown to the ocean?) and also paid RM50.00 for this ritual - it sounded amusing of our ignorant towards this Tech Icon, i thought...

Incidentally, i came across this insightful article in PLoS BLOG, written by Steve Siberman (Thanks for this meaningful post):
"What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really?"
http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/10/28/what-kind-of-buddhist-was-steve-jobs-really/
(accessed 9 March 2012)
I like the picture of this Zen Master posted in this site, i felt he is a great Buddhist Master, having changed the lives of  many people who had affinity with him....
May be it is wiser to start learning Meditation (any tradition) rather than paying RM50?

Read this heart moving commencement address at Stanford University by Steve Jobs in 2005:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Personally, i felt that he is a great man not merely of his artistic innovations in information communication technology, but also the spiritual quest he had spent in his life, the greatest moment was when he was at his business height, he accepted 'death' is inevitable for every one... - that may had made his life such meaningful and fulfilled besides trusting his heart and intuition?...