Zen Sayings And Quotes

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“How clear the mirror.”
– Zen Saying

“How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?”
– Zen Saying

“How often each day would you have to say I don’t want to be where I am? What does it feel like when you don’t want to be where you are- the traffic jam, your place of work, the airport lounge, and the people you are with?”
– Zen Saying

“I would rather sink to the bottom of the sea for endless eons than seek liberation through all the saints of the universe.”
– Zen Saying

“If the mind is dusty, it matters not.”
– Zen Saying

“if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind.”
– Zen Saying

“If you continue this simple practice every day you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.”
– Zen Saying

“If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?”
– Zen Saying

“if you do not understand, things are just as they are.”
– Zen Saying

“If you understand, things are just as they are;”
– Zen Saying

“If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.”
– Zen Saying

“If you wish to know the taste of seawater and you live on an island, set out towards the coast and keep going. When you reach the seashore all you then need to do is to bend down, put the finger into the water, and then into the mouth and you will know the taste of all the seven seas. So it is with freedom, it has but one single taste.”
– Zen Saying

“If you’re attached to anything, you surely will go far astray.”
– Zen Saying

“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything;”
– Zen Saying

“In a small hut, Hakuin lived a quiet life devoted to monastic purity.”
– Zen Saying

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
– Zen Saying

“In the correct meditation posture your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are whether agreeable or disagreeable.”
– Zen Saying

“In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are; some long, some short.”
– Zen Saying

“In the state of acceptance you see very clearly what needs to be done, and you take action, doing one thing at a time and focusing on one thing at a time. Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”
– Zen Saying

“In walking meditation you are not walking to get anyplace. The challenge is to be fully with this step and with this breath.”
– Zen Saying

“It has been said: wherever you go there you are. In other words you are always here. Why is it so hard to accept that?”
– Zen Saying

“Keep your mind alive and free without abiding in anything or anywhere”
– Zen Saying

“Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung.”
– Zen Saying

“Life is the only thing worth living for.”
– Zen Saying

“Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound”
– Zen Saying

“Meditation is like farming…. the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.”
– Zen Saying

“Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life.”
– Zen Saying

“No Mind No Mirror.”
– Zen Saying

“No seed ever sees the flower.”
– Zen Saying

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”
– Zen Saying

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