Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 28, 2013
The purpose of going to a solitary grassy place and doing zazen is to search for our self-nature. Now, at this moment, where is your self-nature?
When you have attained your self-nature, you can liberate yourself from birth and death. How would you free yourself when you about to die?
When you free yourself of birth and death, you will know where to go. After death, where do you go?
~"Three Barriers" Koan
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 27, 2013
The rose is without why
it blossoms because it blossoms
~Angelus Silesius
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 26, 2013
Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water...But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem.
~Seung Sahn
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 24, 2013
Don't dwell upon colors to bring forth the mind; don't dwell upon phenomena of sound, smell, taste or touch to bring forth the mind; dwell nowhere and bring forth the mind.
~Diamond Sutra
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 23, 2013
If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a hyacinth.
~Persian Proverb
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 22, 2013
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain.
~G. K. Chesterton
Friday, June 21, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 21, 2013
A scholar felt his master had been holding back Zen's central secrets from him.
During a walk in the mountains the master asked if the scholar could smell the fragrance of the full-blown mountain laurels.
"Yes," said the scholar.
"You see!" said the master. "I am hiding nothing from you!"
~Zen Mondo
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 20, 2013
Wonderful - the mood of this moment - distant, vast, known to me only!
~Ryokan
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 19, 2013
The wisdom of the past, present, and future Buddhas is imminent in our own mind. If we cannot enlighten ourselves, we have to seek the guidance of pious and learned masters. Those, however, who can enlighten themselves, don't need such extraneous help. Why? Because of our innate wisdom through which we can liberate ourselves.
~Hui-neng
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 18, 2013
I have a boy without a bride.
I have a girl without a husband.
Happy family circle:
we speak of the Unborn.
~Layman P'ang
Monday, June 17, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 16, 2013
Hoyen Zenji was training when he heard a priest say, "Zen is just like knowing the coldness or warmth which a man knows by himself."
Hoyen then asked: "The coldness or warmth are what I know. What is self-knowing? "
~Zen Koan
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 14, 2013
Monk: What is the meaning of Zen?
Master: When I was in Nanking last time, I made a coat that weighed seven pounds.
~Zen Mondo
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 13, 2013
Whatever has entered through the gate of the six senses is not true treasure.
~Zen Saying
Daily Zen Quote - June 12, 2013
The aim of life, it's only aim, is to be free. Free of what? Free to do what? Only to be free, that is all.
~R. H. Blyth
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 11, 2013
If one wishes to enter the Way of the Buddha, he must not hesitate to go to a master and seek training. He must cross the sea or climb mountains, if necessary. But if one does not wish to enter the Way of the Buddha, nobody will be able to lead him to the Way.
~Dogen
Monday, June 10, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 10, 2013
It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with a caress...I climbed a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.
~Bernard Berenson
Daily Zen Quote - June 9, 2013
A moment is a thousand years...Past and future, are they not eternal now?
~The Third Patriarch
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 8, 2013
The true Zazen mind is not the mind seeking enlightenment.
~Kaizen Zenji
Friday, June 7, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 7, 2013
Master Seisetsu was on a fund-raising mission for his temple when a merchant came and brought 500 yen. The master received the money, but without saying thanks. After a bit the merchant said, "500 yen is a lot of money, and yet you have no words of appreciation?"
Immediately the master said, "You're the one who has done a good thing. Why must I thank you?"
With that the merchant understood what the highest good is.
~Zen Story
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 5, 2013
After Rabbi Moshe of Kobryn died, the Rabbi of Kotzk asked a disciple of the deceased what had been the most important things in the Rabbi's life. "Whatever he was engaged in at the moment," the disciple replied.
~Jewish Mondo
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 4, 2013
Whatever you say it is; is simply what you say it is.
~Alfred Korzybski
Monday, June 3, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 3, 2013
Meditation in activity is a hundred, a thousand, a million times superior to meditation in repose.
~Zen Saying
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Daily Zen Quote - June 2, 2013
I had a flowering branch placed by my pillow. As I draw it faithfully, I feel I am gradually coming to grasp the secrets of creation.
~Masaoka Shiki
Saturday, June 1, 2013
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