Browse 1609 quotes about Zen.
“Living authentically means living as the real you without deception. It means you are the person you say you are, not the person you want people to believe you are or the person others expect you to be.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“As long as you treat seemingly bad things as though they are truly bad, you give them the power to be bad.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“So everything that has happened to you, that will happen to you, that is happening to you is perfect for you. Treat it that way, and your whole existence will change — perfectly.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Once you have gotten all you need from a situation, it passes out of your life, never to return.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“The person with a joyous heart is a treasure to be with, a wellspring of inspiration, and a fit companion.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“When we are joyous of heart, we hear a resonance in the songs of the birds, see resonance in the opening of a flower, and feel it in the pressure of a friend’s hand.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Taking control of your life begins with taking control of your thoughts.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Do not allow your brain to infect your mind with visions of ill health, problems, unhappiness, and conflict. You are in charge. Do not succumb to loading your brain with garbage.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“We’ve been slaves to what’s stored in our brain for so long that it takes a herculean effort to clear it out. But it is essential for a good life that you do.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Now almost fifty years have passed since I discovered the I Ching, and I still read it regularly and use it as a guide. The wisdom of the I Ching is inexhaustible. As for the ability to obtain guidance from Tao, well, I don’t know how anyone can get along without it.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Through a specific method of dividing forty - nine yarrow stalks (stems of the milfoil plant), we can receive answers to our questions, obtain direction, anticipate changes, avoid dangers, and take the correct action to bring about the most beneficial results.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Everything in existence is flowing through the six stages of change.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Once you learn how to work with the I Ching, there will be no need to hopelessly wonder whether or not you should consider a relationship with someone, start a particular business, move to a particular neighborhood, or go to a particular place on vacation, or take a particular action.”
“Enlightenment is knowing Who You Are in relation to All - That - Is. There is nothing in the Taoverse more the Taoverse than you. You always were; you will always be.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“If you are having trouble in some areas of your life or are feeling a bit of unhappiness , that could be because some of what you currently believe about life is not in keeping with the laws that govern our cosmos , one of which is that everything that occurs in your life will ultimately be of maximum benefit to you .”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“You are not your body.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“We developed a capacity for language 50,000 to 100,000 years ago . The first modern humans began migrating out of Africa as much as 120,000 years ago . Once upon a time , almost all of us lived in Africa . And we were all black .”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“If what you believe about God fits what I believe about Tao as the Creator of our Taoverse , then , yes , our God is the same , names only making them seem different.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“The word universe suggests that the totality of created existence is a defined space . It’s not . The ball we’ve been talking about exploded into already - existing space — Tao’s space.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Tao also provides you with information and ideas , arranges meetings and opportunities , and pressures you with adversity when you have strayed from the evolutionary path that establishes your destiny on planet Earth.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“As you progress along your path , instead of being worried or uncertain about your future , you will look forward to it with anticipation.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“The image you hold of yourself will be changed for the better . Your efforts will be changed for the better . Your results will be changed for the better . You will be changed for the better.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Your consciousness is part of Tao’s consciousness . Once you become fully aware of that , the concept you hold of yourself will be altered . You will think differently , feel differently , and act differently . That is the most important concept of our conversation.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“When you walk into a room full of people, it is Who You Think You Are who walks into the room.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“As long as you are angry or upset over an event, you will be unable to perceive its beneficial aspects, and you may wear yourself out with unnecessary resistance.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“You are the author of every next moment.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“You’re on a journey to reach a goal of unimaginable worth and promise, and you can’t be burdened with cumbersome pride or ego.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Consciousness is in your brain, your mind, and your body. And because that is true, you are the transmission - and - receiving station for communication with Tao.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“If you would be happy and content, you must let go of regret and resentment. Any regret or resentment for what has been done to you or even for harmful things you have done to others dispels your happiness.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“What we call “ revelations ” is a correct term because the information or the idea is revealed to us. We downloaded it from Tao’s bank of wisdom and information.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“All new information comes from Tao. All old information came from Tao.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“It would be wonderful when you get a new idea, one that you’re grateful for if you gave a nod to Tao, an acknowledgment. You get more new ideas that way.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Fasten your mental seatbelt and prepare to expand the boundaries of whatever you have thought about the universe and how it came into being.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Nothing exists without time, within which everything exists.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Space and time are bound together. Actually, they are more than bound together. Space and time are both manifestations of Tao’s consciousness.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“The problem with scientific speculations is that the correct answers to our questions will always elude us as long as we continue using equations to attempt to explain what can only be perceived by the mind using its faculty to perceive input from Tao.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Our scientists have created many theories, many possibilities about the advent of life, none of which have they been able to prove.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Just because you cannot see aliveness in a rock does not mean the rock doesn’t have it. The rock is made of atoms. Inside each atom is a furious realm of activity with its neutrons and protons forming a nucleus around which electrons orbit at speeds that can travel around the earth in a little over 18 seconds.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Space is already fully expanded without boundaries. To imagine otherwise is the same kind of thinking as the concept humans used to have that the world was flat and that if we reached the edge of the world, we would fall off.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Consciousness is in our stars, our moons, and our stardust. It is in every cell of our developing bodies. The sperm and the egg are conscious.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Ether is the space within which everything exists, including the space inside a vacuum.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Scientists are looking for a substance to fill all of space, a substance that will permit light to travel as a wave, and a substance that permits gravity to operate between masses. Ether does all that and much more but is undetectable without taking into consideration Tao’s consciousness, which is the answer to all the questions.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“I believe that neutrinos impart maintenance of life and healing to us and that they supply energy to us, to our planet, and to everything else in our Taoverse.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“Once the arrow has left the bowstring, it has no power to come back. The moon's brightness shines, revealing the night traveller.”
Source: The Blue Cliff Record
“We never really get away with anything.”
Source: A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah
“The first and foremost aim of Zen, consequently, is to break the net of our concepts -which is why it has been termed by some a philosophy of "no mind." A number of schools of Occidental psychological therapy hold that what we all most need an are seeking is a meaning for our lives. For some, this may be a help; but all it helps is the intellect, and when the intellect sets to work on life with its names and categories, recongnitions of relationship and definitions of meaning, what is inwardmost is readily lost. Zen, on the contrary, holds the realization that life and the sense of life are antecent to meaning; the idea being to let life come and not name it. It will then push you right back to where you live- where you are, and not where you named.”
Source: Myths to Live By
“Make the practice pleasant, that is what I beg you to do.”
Source: The Ultimate Dimension : An Advanced Dharma Retreat on the Avatamsaka and Lotus Sutras
“You cannot remain yourself.”
Source: Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living