Daily Zen Quote - December 31, 2013

New year, old year, what does it matter?
I stretch and I have a quiet sleep all alon.
Don't tell me the monks aren't getting instruction -
Here and there the nightingale sings,
    the highest Zen.

~Bankei

Daily Zen Quote - December 30, 2013

I know that the enterprise is worthy. I know that things works well. I have heard no bad news.

~Henry David Thoreau

Daily Zen Quote - December 29, 2013

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

~Bodhidharma

Daily Zen Quote - December 28, 2013

Heaven and Earth are of the same root as we. All things in the world are one substance with me.

~So-Jo

Daily Zen Quote - December 27, 2013

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

~Juan Ramon Jimenez

Daily Zen Quote - December 26, 2013

Once, back in the time of Buddha, a group of seven women walked into the forest and came across a corpse.
    "Here is the body of a man who has died," said one of the women. "Where is the man?"
    Another one of the women asked, "Where has he gone? Where has he gone?"
    At that moment all of the women were enlightened.

~Buddhist Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - December 25, 2013

Wherever I go
I meet him
He is no other
than myself
yet
I am not he.

~Dogen

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

Daily Zen Quote - December 24, 2013

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

~Albert Schweitzer

Daily Zen Quote - December 23, 2013

An American Seeker: If you follow any way, you will never get there; and if you do not follow any way, you will never get there. So one faces a dilemma.

Hisamatsu: Let the dilemma be your way!

~Zen Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - December 22, 2013

There are no words as great as the no-words words.

~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - December 21, 2013

The sage's mind is dark and still. Through Truth he reaches the ultimate aim and is identified with non-being.

~Liu Chiang-Ch'ing

Daily Zen Quote - December 20, 2013

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

~Fritz Perls

Daily Zen Quote - December 19, 2013

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, "This is certainly not like we thought it was."

~Rumi

Daily Zen Quote - December 18, 2013

We suffer from an illness of the illusion of separateness. We believe that the world is full of discrete things, when in fact it is all one interconnected whole. We experience ourselves as conscious skin-bags living a transitory moral life, when in fact we are the eternal mind of the universe. Separateness is the sickness and Zen is the cure.

~Timothy Freke

Daily Zen Quote - December 17, 2013

To go in the dark with a light
      is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark.

~Wendell Berry

Daily Zen Quote - December 16, 2013

This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. What are we touching right here and now? 

~Soen

Daily Zen Quote - December 15, 2013

Who is he that is hearing at this very moment?

~Bassui's Koan

Daily Zen Quote - December 14, 2013

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

~Master Sawaki

Daily Zen Quote - December 13, 2013

By the practice of Zen you can liberate yourself from your small self and attain the realization of your real self.

~Sogen Asahina

Daily Zen Quote - December 12, 2013

You become what you think about all day long.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Zen Quote - December 11, 2013

In spring, hundreds of flowers;
In autumn, a harvest moon;
In summer, a refreshing breeze;
In winter, snow will accompany you.
If useless things do not hang in our mind,
Any season is a good season.

~Zen Poem

Daily Zen Quote - December 10, 2013

My advice to you: take a rest. Have nothing to do. Put on your clothes, eat your food, move your bowels. That's all. No death to fear. No transmigration to dread. No Nirvana to achieve and no wisdom to attain. Try to be just an ordinary man having nothing to do.

~Hsuan-Chien

Daily Zen Quote - December 9, 2013

"I have never seen anything without seeing God therein," said one Sufi to another.
Said the other, "I have never seen anything but God."

~Sufi Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - December 8, 2013

If all things be regarded with love, Heaven and Earth are one with me.

~So-Shi

Daily Zen Quote - December 7, 2013

To be whole within the fragment.

~Lao-Tsu

Daily Zen Quote - December 6, 2013

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

~Dennis Genpo Merzel

Daily Zen Quote - December 5, 2013

In Zen, silence is good and talk is not.

~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - December 4, 2013

That which before enlightenment is called lustful anger, is after enlightenment called Buddha-wisdom. What the man does is no different from what he did before. It is only that the man himself is not the same as he was.

~Huai-Hai

Daily Zen Quote - December 3, 2013

Bifurcation of reality into subject and object is the work of intellection. When there is no such working, life is a complete whole with no cleavage in it.

~D.T. Suzuki

Daily Zen Quote - December 2, 2013

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

~Will Durant

Daily Zen Quote - December 1, 2013

Meditation in a state of activity is a thousand times more profound than that in a state of quietude.

~Daie