Meditation Helps Heal! Zen Quotes!
Quotes on thinking, quotes about thinking shine a light on the central role of thinking in our lives. Thoughts hold energy – they are creative. The quality of our thinking has an influence on the quality of our lives. The way we relate to our thinking is equally important.
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Out-of-the-Mind Self Improvement and Motivation
“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, and do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
~Orison Swett Marden
Thinking can be one of our greatest assets or one of our worst nightmares. It is a great servant, but a very poor master.
Zen Quotes – Zen Quotations – Realization Quotes – Self Quotes
“Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself…true happiness is born of self-reliance.”
~The Laws Of Manu
“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.”
~W. Somerset Maugham
“The term ‘human being’ suggests our true calling in this life.”
~From “Upside Down Zen” by Susan Murphy
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“Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, a dream.”
~Kongokyo (The Diamond Sutra)
“Make no mistake! Outside there is no dharma; inside, there is nothing to be obtained. Better than grasp at the words from my mouth, take it easy and do nothing. Don’t continue [thoughts] that have already arisen and don’t let those that haven’t yet arisen be aroused. Just this will be worth far more to you than a ten year’s pilgrimage.”
~From “The Records Of Linji”
“Where do we practice from?”
~From “Being Without Self” by Jeff Shore
“You would ripen quickly, if you stay in your nothingness.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.”
~Kodo Sawaki
“Reason sets the boundaries [of life] far too narrowly for us…Day after day we live far beyond the bounds of our consciousness; without our knowledge, the life of the unconscious is also going on within us. The more critical reason dominates – the more impoverished life becomes; but the more of the unconscious…we are capable of making conscious, the more of life we integrate.”
~Carl Jung
“Your mind, intellect, and consciousness are spinning around – let them have rest.”
~Fukanzanzengi
“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever.”
~Dogen Zenji
Zen Quotes – Zen Quotations – Realization Quotes – Self Quotes
“Someone asked Master Ryozan, what is the great matter of the patched robe monk? He answered: no living, no dying; no up, no down; no good, no bad. It is the great death. It is the matter of dying completely, and only this.”
~Zen Master
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the infinite in words?”
~W. Somerset Maugham
“Daito Kokushi, the founder of Daitokuji temple and one of the most illustrious Zen masters in Japanese history, in his final words admonished: ‘Be ever mindful, throughout the twenty-four hours of the day, to apply yourselves to the study of the Unthinkable.”
~From “Novice to Master” by Soko Morinaga
“Even a flea can travel a thousand miles when clinging to the horse’s tail.”
~Takamatsu Sensei
“Great effort, without fail, brings great light.”
~Hakuin
“On the one hand, eventhough you apply yourself to, and are successful in reaping benefits for yourself, without transcending the barriers of old age, sickness, and death, you will not be tranquil in the evening of your life. On the other hand, if you cling to the idea of emptiness and fall into nihilism, it is easy to make the mistake of passing your whole life in vein. But there is another way: the middle way, falling into neither extreme. This middle way is called the Dharma gate of liberation, liberation form both the exhaustible (being) and the inexhaustible (non-being).”
~From “Novice to Master” by Soko Morinaga
“Zazen is nothing special; it is returning to the natural condition.”
~Zen Master
“No holiness; only emptiness.”
~Bodhidharma
“Your mind moving, when your body is not – this is not your natural condition.”
~Zen Master
“…Zazen [life/reality] didn’t begin when I put my feet up in the full lotus posture. Zazen [life/reality] will not end when I bring my legs back down…”
~From “Being Without Self” by Jeff Shore
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“The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
~Hsin Hsin Ming
“Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live is not projected onto you, but by you, your fear comes to an end.”
~From “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Enlightenment comes up first and it means to just be present. If you want to be what you want to be, be present. Just stand up straight, with stability, and then simultaneously your effort turns into practice. Then from this practice the teaching will come up later.”
~From “Returning To Silence” by Dainin Katagiri
“Zazen is sitting upright and letting delusions be.”
~”Living and Dying In Zazen” by Motoko Ikebe
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“Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!”
~Kodo Sawaki Roshi
“‘I am this’, ‘I am that’ is a sign of not enquiring, not examining, a sign of mental weakness or lethargy.”
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Practicing the way means to live the present day.”
~From Dogen’s ‘Fukanzazengi’
“Stop all external connections; have no concerns within; make the mind a stone wall, and enter the great way.”
~Boddhidharma
“A day of religious practice is a treasure; a hundred priceless years without that practice are a hundred years of regret.”
~Dogen Zen
“There is only one substance, not two or three. Form is condensed emptiness, emptiness is thined out form.”
~From “I Am That” DVD
“I have gone on at great length about life in a Zen monastery, a subject that may seem totally unrelated to your own lives. Yet all people, regardless of how their lives are structured, hold themselves dear. Everyone wants to be happy. And enlightenment is the starting point of happiness. We can use the words ‘true self confidence’ in place of ‘enlightenment’. Confidence in the true self is a necessary requisite to happiness.”
~From “Novice to Master” by Soko Morinaga
“Coming home is letting go, allowing resistance to drop away as it softens in the mind of breathing. Is it effortful to let go? Letting go is already dropping effort.”
~From “Upside Down Zen” by Susan Murphy
“Be patient with your practice. Trust in the Buddha way. Throw yourself into your practice, yet with calmness and composure. When conditions are right, when the fruit is ripe, it naturally falls to the ground.”
~From “Being Without Self” by Jeff Shore
“What is the formless dojo?”
~An Apprentice Asks A Zen Master
“There is nothing to it!”
~Rinzai’s exclamation upon his awakening
“Q: How am I to reach perfection? M: Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. Do not rely on your work for realization. It may profit others, but not you. Your hope lies in keeping silent in your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are very quiet.”
~From “I Am That”
“Not concerned with outer things; without having any troubles inside; if one’s mind is like a wall, he would at the same time be in Tao (truth).”
~Bodhidharma (the first patriarch of Zen)
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“People who sit zazen trying to become something, not letting go of the things they are holding onto, but trying to obtain or attain a certain state of mind, move further and further away from what this clarifying of mind, this repentance, can do. When we try to find some state of mind that we have experienced before, or whe have an idea about what our state of mind should be and strive to attain that goal, our sitting becomes more and more cumbersome; when we cannot find the state of mind we think we should be attaining, the weight of the ego becomes heavier and heavier. This process I am describing – of clarifying our behavior – is a way of emptying rather than of putting on.”
~From “The Path To Bodhidharma” by Shodo Harada Roshi
“If you grasp the point, you are like a dragon gaining the water, like a tiger taking to the mountains.”
~Fukanzazengi
“There is only life. There is nobody who lives a life.”
~From “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj
