Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 31, 2013

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
~Angelus Silesius

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 30, 2013

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
~Raoul Vaneigem

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 29, 2013

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 28, 2013

That is what you are, that is what I am, that is what everything in the universe is - beginningless, endless life, infinite, boundless, eternal Life. That is what we must realize. And to this realization Zen practice leads us step by step. This is the aim of Zen. This is true satori.
~Ruth Fuller Sasaki

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 27, 2013

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice.
   "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too!"
~Lewis Carroll

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 26, 2013

The roaring waterfall
is the Buddha's golden mouth.
The mountains in the distance
are his pure luminous body.
How many thousands of poems
have flowed through me tonight!
And tomorrow I won't be able
to repeat even one word.
~Su Tung-p'o

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 25, 2013

For years I suffered in snow
    and frost.
Now I am startled at pussy
    willows falling.
~Tozan

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 24, 2013

Although his life is spent in the midst of the nameable, he is far away and unnameable.
~Liu Chiang-Ch'ing

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 23, 2013

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
~Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 22, 2013

One of the disciples of Rabbi Shmelke complained of "alien thoughts." The rabbi told the man to visit another disciple Rabbi Abraham Haim, who was an innkeeper. For two weeks the disciple stayed with the innkeeper and observed his customs. He watched each day as Rabbi Haim prayed and did his work and thought there was nothing special about him. But the disciple did not know what happened at night, after all the guests had gone, and early in the morning, before the guests arrived. Finally, he worked up the courage to ask the Rabbi.
The Rabbi told him that in the evening he washed all the dishes and, as in the course of the night the dust settled on them, he washed them again in the morning.
When the disciple returned to Rabbi Shmelke and told him all this, the Rabbi said, "Now you know all you need to know."
~Jewish Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 21, 2013

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoyed the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought,
   to have done?
~Matthew Arnold

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 20, 2013

Hui-ch'ao asked Fa-yen, "What is Buddha?"
"You are, Hui-ch'ao,"
Fa-yen replied.
~Zen Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 19, 2013

A newborn moving his arms and legs is the splendid work of buddha nature...so is the flying bird, the running hare, the scudding cloud.
~Bassui

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 18, 2013

It is not enough to tell people that it is possibly to become Buddha. What Zen does is to actually produce Buddhas...It is something that must be experienced, not explained. Scientific knowledge is gained and developed by syllogism-but Zen, because it is based solely on intuition, has no need for such a roundabout method. Zen is the actualization of the unselfish life.
~Nyogen Senzaki

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 17, 2013

The tongue like a sharp knife...kills without drawing blood.
~Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 16, 2013

Be independent and cling to nothing.
~I-Hsuan

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 15, 2013

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
~Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 14, 2013

Without insight, meditation cannot contain the highest state of quietude. Without meditation, wisdom cannot achieve its profundity of insight.
~Hu Shih

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 13, 2013

At seventy I do not transgress the law.
~Confucius

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 12, 2013

The Buddhist does not make it the purpose of his life to rise from the dead, gain the immortality of a mythical being known as self, to lay up treasure for the future, to expect some reward in Heaven...he endeavors to actualize the glory of God in the world while he is alive - the glory which he had before the world was - and which is made manifest only by following the way of God, by practicing in thought as well as in person the doctrine of non-ego, the precept of lovingkindness.
~Soen Shaku

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 11, 2013

Monk: Why do you hate talking about Zen?
Goso: Because it turns one's stomach.
~Zen Mondo

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 10, 2013

Not mind, not Buddha...Being mind, being Buddha.
~The Two Trends of Early Zen

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 9, 2013

Concepts and judgments go together - they are unable to express the highest truth.
~Zen Saying

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 8, 2013

Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge.
~Buddha

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 7, 2013

Say nothing and saw wood.
~Vermont Zen

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 6, 2013

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.
~Ikkyu

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 5, 2013

If you do not enter the Way of the Buddha in this life, then in which life will you realize the Truth?
~Dogen

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 4, 2013

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.
~Albert Einstein

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 3, 2013

In the outer world of good and evil, when not a thought arises in the mind, that is called ze (sitting). Inwardly, to see one's own nature and not be moved that is called Zen (meditation).
~The Sixth Patriarch

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 2, 2013

A nameless bird
     looks cold
          oh the wintry blast

~Sampu

Daily Zen Quote - Mar. 1, 2013

Whoever has seen the Tao in the morning can die in the evening without regret.
~Chinese Saying