Home / Topics / Lying Quotes

Lying Quotes

Browse 12355 quotes about Lying.

Lying Quotes

“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Reality Lying Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Empty Oneself Liberation Delusion Lying Down

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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

Thinking Knows Mind Lying Walking Sitting Lying Down Zen Proverb

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Ifs Body Eye Lying Asks Causes Walking Spring Sitting Dust Intimate Visible Grain Dharma Treasury Lying Down

Author:Dogen

“I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.”

Lying Higher Sitting Heels Repose

Book:Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc

Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc

“About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.”

People Stills Sometimes Home Care Remember Death Lying Streets Dying Sitting Died Shops Death And Dying Physicians Butchers Parlor Relatives And Friends

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”

Reality Care Lying Justice Four Duty Cold Sitting Currents Units Seventies Ninety Resumes Intensive Care Unit

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.”

Thinking Knows Writing Seems Lying Bed Essentials Sitting Chairs Hanging Out Daydreaming Dope Indolence Bed Time

Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley