Zen Sayings And Quotes

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“Not thinking of good, not thinking of evil – tell me, what was your original face before your mother and father were born?”
– Zen Saying

“Nothing on earth can overcome an absolutely nonresistant person.”
– Zen Saying

“Once you stop arousing concepts and thinking in terms of existence and non-existence, long and short, other and self, active and passive, and suchlike, you will find that your Mind is intrinsically the Buddha, that the Buddha is intrinsically Mind, and that Mind resembles a void.”
– Zen Saying

“Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare Words exist”
– Zen Saying

“One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.”
– Zen Saying

“Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.”
– Zen Saying

“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don’t realize is that their own mind is the void.”
– Zen Saying

“Sitting peacefully doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.”
– Zen Saying

“Sitting quietly doing nothing, spring comes, grass grows of itself”
– Zen Saying

“Surrender is surrender to this moment not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.”
– Zen Saying

“The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.”
– Zen Saying

“The fish trap exists because of the fish Once you’ve gotten the fish”
– Zen Saying

“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think. The wise reject what they think, not what they see”
– Zen Saying

“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.”
– Zen Saying

“The Great Way is not difficult, it only avoids picking and choosing.”
– Zen Saying

“The greater the passion, the greater the Buddha.”
– Zen Saying

“The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark”
– Zen Saying

“The Mind is no other than the Buddha, and the Buddha is no other than sentient being. When the Mind assumes the form of a sentient being, it has suffered no decrease. When it has become a Buddha, it has added nothing to itself”
– Zen Saying

“The mind reflects Buddha nature.”
– Zen Saying

“The mind should be as a mirror.”
– Zen Saying

“The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.”
– Zen Saying

“The story is told of one of the great patriarchs of the Zen tradition.”
– Zen Saying

“The ultimate standpoint of Zen is that we have been led astray through ignorance”
– Zen Saying

“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.”
– Zen Saying

“There is a big stone Do you consider it to be inside or outside your mind?”
– Zen Saying

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