Zen Quotes Zen Sayings
When you observe your delusions, you will know that they are baseless and not dependable. In this way you can cut confusion and doubt. This is what i call wisdom. - Bodhidharma
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen;
Talking or silent, moving unmoving,-
The essence is at ease. - Yoka
When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. - Osho
You don't throw off your burdens even when you go to bed; you are busy with illusions. - Yakusan
Mind is like the wood or stone from which a person carves an image. If he carves a dragon or a tiger, and seeing it fears it, he is like a stupid person creating a picture of hell and then afraid to face it. If he does not fear it, then his unnecessary thoughts will vanish. Part
of the mind produces sight, sound, taste, odor and sensibility, and from them raises greed, anger and ignorance with al] their accompanying likes and dislikes.
- Bodhidharma
Stop talking and thinking,
And there is nothing
You will not be able to know. - Sosan
since the journey of life
is little but grief and pain,
why should we be so reluctant
to return to the sky of our native place? - Ikkyu
Confused by thoughts,
we experience duality in life.
Unencumbered by ideas,
the enlightened see the one Reality. - Hui Neng
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached to any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth or a death, reject them all. - Bodhidharma
When you are silent, it speaks;
When you speak, it is silent. - Yoka
When no discriminating thoughts arise,
the old mind ceases to exist. - Sosan
Among the greatest treasures
To be found on earth,
Being of nothingness
Is the greatest.
A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher’s words, but uses his own experience to find the truth. A dull student depends on coming to a gradual understanding through his teacher’s word: a teacher has two
kinds of students; one hears the teacher’s words without clinging to the material nor to the immaterial, without attaching to form or to nonform, Without thinking of animate objects or of inanimate objects... This is the Sagacious student; the other, who is avid for understanding, accumulates meanings, and mixes good and bad, is the dull student. - Bodhidharma
When things are no longer important, only consciousness becomes important. When things are no longer significant, a new search, a new door opens. Then you are not rushing towards the without: you start slipping into the within. The kingdom of God is within. And once you drop identifying with things, suddenly you are no longer fighting -- there is no point. You start moving with the river of existence. Arrival at home is effortless. - Osho
"It is present everywhere.
There is nothing it does not contain.
However only those who have previously
planted wisdom - seeds will be able
to continuously see it. - Dogen
When practitioners of Zen fail to transcend
the world of their senses and thoughts,
all they do has no value. - Huang Po
Do not search for the truth;
only cease to hold opinions. - Sosan
Sitting silently, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. - Basho
If you don't find a teacher soon, you'll live this life in vain. it's true, you have the buddha-nature. but without the help of a teacher you'll never know it. only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. - Bodhidharma
To find a buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings and keeping precepts are all useless. - Bodhidharma
When you try to stop activity
To achieve passivity
Your very effort fills you with activity. - Sosan
Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself. - Ryokan
Meditation is looking into your emptiness, welcoming it, enjoying it, being one with it, with no desire to fill it -- there is no need, because it is already full. - Osho
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding. - Bodhidharma
There is no God but godliness. It is a quality, a fragrance. You experience it, you don't see it. And when you experience it, it is not something out there as an object; it is something IN HERE, in the heart of your hearts. It is your subjectivity, it is your consciousness. - Osho
When I am hungry I eat, and when I am thirsty I drink. - Bankei
The real way is not difficult.
It only abhors choice and attachment. - Joshu
All buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all buddhas. One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality there is nothing to be born, Consequently there is nothing to perish. - Bodhidharma
It is not only that you are seeking God -- God is also seeking you in many, many ways. Sometimes as a Krishna with his flute, sometimes as a Buddha with his silence, sometimes as a Jesus with his revolutionary approach to life -- in millions of ways God has been extending his hand towards you, groping for you. Sometimes your hand has even touched His hand -- but you don't understand. Sometimes even a glimmer, a tremor has gone through your spine, but you don't understand. On the contrary, you explain it somehow. - Osho
To find a buddha, all you have to do is see your nature. your nature is the buddha. and the buddha is the person who's free, free of plans, free of cares. if you don't see your nature and run around all day looking somewhere else, you'll never find a buddha. the truth is, there's nothing to find. but to reach such an understanding you need a teacher. and you need to struggle to make yourself understand. - Bodhidharma
If you wish to see the truth
Then hold no opinion for or against.
The struggle of what one likes
And what one dislikes
Is the disease of the mind. - Sosan
Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation -- all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things. - Osho
If you seek the buddha, you will be caught by the buddha demon; if you seek the patriarchs, you will be bound by the patriarch demon. Whatever you are seeking, all becomes suffering. It is better to have nothing further to seek. - Rinzai
The inner emptiness is the door to God. - Osho
Knowing one's mind, seeing into one's nature, is the way without mistakes. - Joshu
Discrimination with no-mind is right. Discrimination with mind is Wrong. When one transcends right and wrong, he is truly right. - Bodhidharma
The Great Way is not difficult
For those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
Everything becomes clear and undisguised. - Sosan
Go beyond language. Go Beyong Thought. - Bodhidharma.
Let me drop a word of advice for believers of my faith.
To enjoy life’s immensity, you do not need many things. - Ryokan
Mind is simply a combination of all the thoughts, of all the clouds. Mind has no independent nature of its own. When all the thoughts are gone and the sky is clean and clear, you will see that everything that you have paid so much attention to is nothing but emptiness. Your thoughts were all empty. They contained nothing, they were void. - Osho
To attain enlightenment you have to see your nature. unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause and effect is nonsense. buddhas don't practice nonsense. a buddha is free of karma, free of cause and effect. to say he attains anything at all is to slander a buddha. what could he possibly attain? Even focusing on a mind, a power, an understanding or a view is impossible for a buddha. a buddha isn't one-sided. the nature of his No-Mind is basically empty, neither pure nor impure. he's free of practice and realization. he's free of cause and effect. A buddha doesn't observe precepts. a buddha doesn't do good or evil. a buddha isn't energetic or lazy. a buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can't even focus his mind on a buddha. Bodhidharma
When you observe your delusions, you will know that they are baseless and not dependable. In this way you can cut confusion and doubt. This is what i call wisdom. - Bodhidharma
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen;
Talking or silent, moving unmoving,-
The essence is at ease. - Yoka
When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. - Osho
You don't throw off your burdens even when you go to bed; you are busy with illusions. - Yakusan
Mind is like the wood or stone from which a person carves an image. If he carves a dragon or a tiger, and seeing it fears it, he is like a stupid person creating a picture of hell and then afraid to face it. If he does not fear it, then his unnecessary thoughts will vanish. Part
of the mind produces sight, sound, taste, odor and sensibility, and from them raises greed, anger and ignorance with al] their accompanying likes and dislikes.
- Bodhidharma
Stop talking and thinking,
And there is nothing
You will not be able to know. - Sosan
since the journey of life
is little but grief and pain,
why should we be so reluctant
to return to the sky of our native place? - Ikkyu
Confused by thoughts,
we experience duality in life.
Unencumbered by ideas,
the enlightened see the one Reality. - Hui Neng
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached to any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth or a death, reject them all. - Bodhidharma
When you are silent, it speaks;
When you speak, it is silent. - Yoka
When no discriminating thoughts arise,
the old mind ceases to exist. - Sosan
Among the greatest treasures
To be found on earth,
Being of nothingness
Is the greatest.
A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher’s words, but uses his own experience to find the truth. A dull student depends on coming to a gradual understanding through his teacher’s word: a teacher has two
kinds of students; one hears the teacher’s words without clinging to the material nor to the immaterial, without attaching to form or to nonform, Without thinking of animate objects or of inanimate objects... This is the Sagacious student; the other, who is avid for understanding, accumulates meanings, and mixes good and bad, is the dull student. - Bodhidharma
When things are no longer important, only consciousness becomes important. When things are no longer significant, a new search, a new door opens. Then you are not rushing towards the without: you start slipping into the within. The kingdom of God is within. And once you drop identifying with things, suddenly you are no longer fighting -- there is no point. You start moving with the river of existence. Arrival at home is effortless. - Osho
"It is present everywhere.
There is nothing it does not contain.
However only those who have previously
planted wisdom - seeds will be able
to continuously see it. - Dogen
When practitioners of Zen fail to transcend
the world of their senses and thoughts,
all they do has no value. - Huang Po
Do not search for the truth;
only cease to hold opinions. - Sosan
Sitting silently, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. - Basho
If you don't find a teacher soon, you'll live this life in vain. it's true, you have the buddha-nature. but without the help of a teacher you'll never know it. only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. - Bodhidharma
To find a buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings and keeping precepts are all useless. - Bodhidharma
When you try to stop activity
To achieve passivity
Your very effort fills you with activity. - Sosan
Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself. - Ryokan
Meditation is looking into your emptiness, welcoming it, enjoying it, being one with it, with no desire to fill it -- there is no need, because it is already full. - Osho
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding. - Bodhidharma
There is no God but godliness. It is a quality, a fragrance. You experience it, you don't see it. And when you experience it, it is not something out there as an object; it is something IN HERE, in the heart of your hearts. It is your subjectivity, it is your consciousness. - Osho
When I am hungry I eat, and when I am thirsty I drink. - Bankei
The real way is not difficult.
It only abhors choice and attachment. - Joshu
All buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all buddhas. One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality there is nothing to be born, Consequently there is nothing to perish. - Bodhidharma
It is not only that you are seeking God -- God is also seeking you in many, many ways. Sometimes as a Krishna with his flute, sometimes as a Buddha with his silence, sometimes as a Jesus with his revolutionary approach to life -- in millions of ways God has been extending his hand towards you, groping for you. Sometimes your hand has even touched His hand -- but you don't understand. Sometimes even a glimmer, a tremor has gone through your spine, but you don't understand. On the contrary, you explain it somehow. - Osho
To find a buddha, all you have to do is see your nature. your nature is the buddha. and the buddha is the person who's free, free of plans, free of cares. if you don't see your nature and run around all day looking somewhere else, you'll never find a buddha. the truth is, there's nothing to find. but to reach such an understanding you need a teacher. and you need to struggle to make yourself understand. - Bodhidharma
If you wish to see the truth
Then hold no opinion for or against.
The struggle of what one likes
And what one dislikes
Is the disease of the mind. - Sosan
Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation -- all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things. - Osho
If you seek the buddha, you will be caught by the buddha demon; if you seek the patriarchs, you will be bound by the patriarch demon. Whatever you are seeking, all becomes suffering. It is better to have nothing further to seek. - Rinzai
The inner emptiness is the door to God. - Osho
Knowing one's mind, seeing into one's nature, is the way without mistakes. - Joshu
Discrimination with no-mind is right. Discrimination with mind is Wrong. When one transcends right and wrong, he is truly right. - Bodhidharma
The Great Way is not difficult
For those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
Everything becomes clear and undisguised. - Sosan
Go beyond language. Go Beyong Thought. - Bodhidharma.
Let me drop a word of advice for believers of my faith.
To enjoy life’s immensity, you do not need many things. - Ryokan
Mind is simply a combination of all the thoughts, of all the clouds. Mind has no independent nature of its own. When all the thoughts are gone and the sky is clean and clear, you will see that everything that you have paid so much attention to is nothing but emptiness. Your thoughts were all empty. They contained nothing, they were void. - Osho
To attain enlightenment you have to see your nature. unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause and effect is nonsense. buddhas don't practice nonsense. a buddha is free of karma, free of cause and effect. to say he attains anything at all is to slander a buddha. what could he possibly attain? Even focusing on a mind, a power, an understanding or a view is impossible for a buddha. a buddha isn't one-sided. the nature of his No-Mind is basically empty, neither pure nor impure. he's free of practice and realization. he's free of cause and effect. A buddha doesn't observe precepts. a buddha doesn't do good or evil. a buddha isn't energetic or lazy. a buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can't even focus his mind on a buddha. Bodhidharma
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