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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.
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Life is the only
thing worth living for.
Everyday life is the way. |
Zen proverb
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If you
understand,
things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they
are. |
Zen proverb
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is
bliss. |
Bodhidharma |
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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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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.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is
bliss. |
Bodhidharma |
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When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a
sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man. |
Zen proverb
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Better to sit all night than to go to bed with
a dragon. |
Zen proverb
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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.
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When you get to the top of the mountain,
keep
climbing. |
Zen proverb
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once
you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is
Zen. |
Bodhidharma |
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Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing.
~ Chien-ju
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Become less
knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take
life as
fun – because
that's precisely what it is! |
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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.
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Yuan Wu |
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite
afflictions and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and
delusion. |
Bodhidharma |
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You know the sound of two hands
clapping; tell me, what is the
sound of one hand?
~ Hakuin Ekaku
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Experience life in all possible ways.
The more experience you have, the more mature you become. |
Osho |
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Everything the same; everything distinct.
~ Chien-ju
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Great Faith. Great Doubt.
Great Effort.
– The three qualities necessary for
training. |
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Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water,
after enlightenment chop wood, carry water.
Day after day the sun.
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something
every day.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.
Move and the way will open.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.
Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of
flames.
Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they
haven’t half the strength you think they have.
The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
The water flows, but back into the ocean. The moon sinks, but is even in Heaven.
Time passes quickly and opportunity is lost. Each of us must strive to awaken.
Do not squander your lives.
Touch the hole in your life, and there flowers will bloom.
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