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Zen is your true nature and your wise and compassionate friend.


Zen is the Japanese translation of the Sanskrit word meaning meditation. Zen is based on the practice of transcendent virtues with the most widely used being generosity, moral training, patient endurance, energy or effort, meditation, and wisdom.

 

 

 

Zen proverbs

Life is the only thing worth living for.

Everyday life is the way.

Zen proverb

 

 

4 Main Zen Principles

① The denial of the ego

② The focus on interconnectedness in the universe

③ The recognition of attachment as a source of suffering

④ The realization that human perception is faulty

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Zen proverbs

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Zen proverb

 

Bodhidharma

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Bodhidharma

 

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If you want to get wiser, close your eyes, quiet your mind, and open your heart.

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When I'm walking, I'm walking; when I'm eating, I'm eating; when I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping.


Sitting peacefully doing nothing. Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.


The mind should be as a mirror.

 

 

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A point of view makes you blind. Learn to unlearn. Quiet your mind. To understand something, become it.

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Zen proverbs

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.

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Let go or be dragged.


If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray.


The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.


One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.

 

 

Japanese Proverbs

Rather than chase the cat, take away the plate.

Japanese proverb

 

Bodhidharma

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Bodhidharma

 

Zen proverbs

If you do not get it from yourself,

where will you go for it?

Zen proverb

 

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.


When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

 

 

Zen proverbs

When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Zen proverb

 

Zen proverbs

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.

Zen proverb

 

 

Nothing on earth can overcome an absolutely nonresistant person.


Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.


No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.


Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.

 

 

Zen proverbs

When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

Zen proverb

 

   

Zen Quotes

 

 

 

Bodhidharma

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Bodhidharma

 

   

Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing. ~ Chien-ju

 

 

 

Become less knowledgeable and more childlike.

Take life as fun – because that's precisely what it is!

Osho

 

 

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

~ Basho


As soon as you sense any lingering or obstruction, all of it is false imagining. Just make your mind clean and free, like space, like a mirror, like the sun in the sky.

~ Yuan Wu

 

 

Bodhidharma

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Bodhidharma

 

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If you don't pay attention to problems,
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You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand? ~ Hakuin Ekaku

 

 

 

Experience life in all possible ways. The more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Osho

 

   

Everything the same; everything distinct. ~ Chien-ju

 

 

 

Bodhidharma

All know the way; few actually walk it.

Bodhidharma

   

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Zen proverbs

Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort.

– The three qualities necessary for training.

Zen proverb