Daily Zen Quote - August 31, 2013

Let one's ideal rise as high as the crown of Vairocana (the highest of the Buddhas) while his life may be so full of humility as to make him prostrate before a baby's feet.

~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - August 30, 2013

Ten years searching in the deep forest.
Today great laughter at the edge of the lake.

~Soen

Daily Zen Quote - August 29, 2013

When you come out of samadhi (from sitting), move the body slowly, rise calmly, and do not be quick or violent in your movements. After coming out of samadhi, also, use every means all through the day to guard your samadhi-power as you would protect a child.

~The Zazengi

Daily Zen Quote - August 28, 2013

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

~The Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - August 27, 2013

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

~T.S. Eliot

Daily Zen Quote - August 26, 2013

The unchangeable is known by holding up a flower. Longevity is realized by a smile.

~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - August 25, 2013

More wisdom is latent in things-as-they-are than in all the words men use.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Daily Zen Quote - August 24, 2013

The Scholar: Whither goes the soul when the body dies?
The Master: There is no necessity for it to go anywhere.

~Jakob Bohme

Daily Zen Quote - August 23, 2013

The Road has two rules only: Begin and Continue, and the Buddha left us a detailed guide-book for the Way.

~Christmas Humphreys

Daily Zen Quote - August 22, 2013

When you're awake, you're awake in the same Buddha-mind as when you were sleeping. You sleep in the Buddha-mind while you sleep and are up and about in the Buddha-mind while you are up and about. That way, you always stay in the Buddha-mind. You're never apart from it for an instant...There's not a moment when you're not a Buddha.

~Bankei

Daily Zen Quote - August 21, 2013

A sudden clash of thunder,
the mind-doors burst open.
And lo, there sitteth the old man in all his homeliness.

~Chao-pien

Daily Zen Quote - August 20, 2013

This is the Buddhist life and the Zen life, as I understand it; a life lived in full realization of who we really are and what this world we live in really is; a life lived simply, naturally, spontaneously, and awarely; a life dedicated to infinite gratitude to the past, infinite gratitude and service to the present, and infinite responsibility to the future. Such a life is truly a religious life, and toward such a life Zen teaching and discipline lead us. Yes, truly, Zen is a religion.

~Ruth Fuller Sasaki

Daily Zen Quote - August 19, 2013

"What is Zen?" What right have you to waste precious time asking such a foolish question? Go on straight forwardly!

~Nyogen Senzaki

Daily Zen Quote - August 18, 2013

Vomit completely you own ego.

~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - August 17, 2013

The face you already had before you were born, even before your parents were born, your Original Face.

~Hui-neng, on the True Self

Daily Zen Quote - August 16, 2013

A Chinese official asked one of Ma-tsu's disciples the meaning of the Buddhist canon. The disciple waved a closed fist and said: "Do you understand?"
"No," confessed the official.
The monk roared: "Fool! Do you not recognize a fist?"

~Zen Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - August 15, 2013

What a naughty fellow he was,
The man who called Buddha.
Because of him many people are driven to puzzling.

~Ikkyu

Daily Zen Quote - August 14, 2013

Buddha taught that there is no ego either in man or in dharma...The flower has no ego. In the spring it blooms; it the autumn it dies. The stream has no ego. The wind blows and waves appear, the river bed drops abruptly and there is a waterfall. We ourselves must really feel these things.

~Sokei-an

Daily Zen Quote - August 13, 2013

If I own a cow, the cow owns me.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen Quote - August 12, 2013

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

~Jim Butcher

Daily Zen Quote - August 11, 2013

When one talks about Zen it fills me with disgust.

~Zen Master

Daily Zen Quote - August 10, 2013

The Tao is not classifiable as either knowledge or non-knowledge.

~Nan-Chuan

Daily Zen Quote - August 9, 2013

The Layman P'ang traveled to the Mount Nan-yueh monastery and asked Master Sekito: "Who is the man who doesn't accompany the ten thousand dharmas?"
Sekito responded by covering P'ang's mouth with his hand. The Layman was instantly enlightened.

~Zen Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - August 8, 2013

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

Daily Zen Quote - August 7, 2013

The world - formless and boundless! Nothing! Not self, not even Buddha.

~Shin'ichi Hisamatsu

Daily Zen Quote - August 6, 2013

When you look, it is formless;
When you call, it echoes.
It is the great Dharma commander,
Transmitting the sutras
Through precepts of mind.

As saltiness in water,
Transparency in color,
Surely it is there,
But its form is invisible;
The Mind King is also thus,
Residing in the body.

- Master Ful

Daily Zen Quote - August 5, 2013

There is no large, no small. Infinity lies before my eyes.

~Seng-Ts'an

Daily Zen Quote - August 4, 2013

Of an early death showing no signs the cicada sings.

~Basho

Daily Zen Quote - August 3, 2013

With everyone born human, a poet-an artist-is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Daily Zen Quote - August 2, 2013

Heroes become Buddhas with one thought, but lazy people are given the three collections of scriptures to traverse.

~Buddhist Saying

Daily Zen Quote - August 1, 2013

There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.

~D.T. Suzuki