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“Zen history relates of many enlightened people, but only hesitatingly does it give any information about what the experience of enlightenment is.”

Book:Zen Enlightenment: Origins And Meaning

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“If we can unify the apparent duality between the great uncontrollable energy and the natural wisdom of our monkey mind, if we moderate its impulsive tendencies and incorporate its intuitive wisdom, we can express our being in all its capacity and transform into calm and enlightened individuals.”

Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Zen Meditation Quotes Zen Buddhism Zen Stories Zen Quotes Monkey Mind Zen Wisdom

Book:The Zen Wisdom and the Monkey Mind: Zen Teachings to Unify Your Inner Self, Calm Your Mind, Overcome Anxiety, and Live with Wisdom and Fulfillment

Source: The Zen Wisdom and the Monkey Mind: Zen Teachings to Unify Your Inner Self, Calm Your Mind, Overcome Anxiety, and Live with Wisdom and Fulfillment

“Long long years, Yes, endlessly long years, Being together face to face, Never asking the moon the time to go. 向かいゐて千代も八千代も見てしがな空行く月のこと問はずとも”

Love Zen Haiku

Book:Zen Fool Ryokan

Source: Zen Fool Ryokan

“When? When? How eagerly I've been waiting. Now that you are here What more do I want? いついつと待ちにし人は来たりけり今は会ひ見て何か思はむ”

Love Zen Haiku

Book:Zen Fool Ryokan

Source: Zen Fool Ryokan

“A garden has to be disciplined so that the plans and flowers do not strangle each other, but the beauty of the garden is not in the discipline so much as the things whose growth it has made possible.”

Buddhism Zen Discpline

Author:Alan Watts

“Student: Master, I asked you yesterday to show me a way out of the problem I mentioned! But you still haven't! Master: I showed you! I said don't doubt that you will find a way out, this is the way out!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you speak delusions, everything becomes a delusion; If you speak the truth, everything becomes the truth. Outside the truth there is no delusion, But outside delusion there is no special truth. Followers of Buddha's Way! Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusions and truth in the bottom of your own hearts.”

Truth Practice Seeking Zen Delusion

Book:One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

Source: One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

“He screamed as he lurched down the hall. He poured blood on the carpet as he lurched down the hall. He left the occasional gory handprint to mark his progress as he lurched down the hall. But he was not yet dying as he lurched down the hall.”

Perseverance Zen Mantra

Book:The Dark Half

Source: The Dark Half

“What we want is seldom what we need. And what we need is almost never what we want.”

Zen

Book:The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery

Source: The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery

“Wherever we go, we are our own companion. And that is why we must try to be a good friend to ourselves and treat ourselves with gentleness. After all, we are the one we spend the most time with.”

Zen

Book:The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery

Source: The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery

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