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