17 quotes found
“itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling”
“The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.”
“The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.”
“We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.”
“Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.”
“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”
“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome...”
“The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.”
“You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,The crackle of their funeral pyres,”
“Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,maybe you can grasp it.”
“Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.”
“The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.”
“Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke about Bodhidharma. After the talk, someone asked him "What's the difference betw...”
“True wisdomis not borrowed knowledgeit must be basedon my own experience.That which I learn from othersis memory, not wisdom”
“Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance”
“People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.”
“There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and k...”
