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Zen Archive - Archive 1 - Archive 2 - Archive 3 - Archive 4 - Archive 5 - Archive 6 - Archive 7 - Archive 8 A monk asked Chao-chou, "If a poor man comes, what should one give him?" "He lacks nothing," answered the Master. ——Zen Mondo Chop wood, carry water. ——Zen Saying Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ——Basho Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing. ——Zen Saying Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God. ——Lenny Bruce Everything the same; everything distinct. ——Zen Saying Four and fifty years I've hung the sky with stars. Now I leap through -- What shattering! ——Dogen I am not young enough to know everything. ——J.M. Barrie I saw somebody peeing in Jermyn Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civiliaztion as we know it? Or is it simply somebody peeing in Jermyn Street? ——Alan Bennett I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. ——Diogenes If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ——Dogen If you meet on the way a man who knows, Don't speak a word -- Don't keep silent! ——Zen Saying In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enfoy. In family life, be completely present. ——Tao Te Jing In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ——Shunryu Suzuki It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. ——Oscar Wilde Look within, thou art Buddha. ——The Voice of the Silence Lovely snowflakes, they fall nowhere else! ——Zen Saying Our life is frittered away by detail … Simplify, simplify. ——Thoreau Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while; A great wind is bearing me across the sky. ——Ojibwa Saying That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. ——Willa Cather The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ——Henry Miller The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. ——Yasutani Roshi The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target. ——Zen Saying The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ——Robert M. Pirsig The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ——Dogen This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God ... ——Walt Whitman Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. ——The Buddha To set up what you like against what you don't like -- this is the disease of the mind. ——Seng-T'san We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. ——Tao Te Jing When the Student is ready the Master appears. ——Buddhist Proverb When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. ——Fen-Yang | |
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