Best Zen Buddhism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?”

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Author:Kate Atkinson

“In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind.”

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Author:Mike Scheidt

“In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

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Book:Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Source: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”

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Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.”

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Author:Bernie Glassman

“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”

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Author:Bernie Glassman

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.”

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Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

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Author:Dogen

“Think with your whole body.”

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Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.”

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Author:Taizan Maezumi

“Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.”

“Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of satanic power.”

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”

“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.”

“What you think you become.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.”

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Author:Dogen

“When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.”

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Author:David Sylvian

“Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.”

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Author:Eugen Herrigel

“One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.”

World Deep Thought Impermanence Zen Buddhism

Author:Dogen

“Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.”

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Book:The Light of Discovery

Source: The Light of Discovery

“Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.”

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Author:Bankei Yotaku