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Quotes,
proverbs, famous Zen sayings
If you understand,
things are just as they are...
if you do not understand, things are just as they are
Zen proverb
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From the pine tree
learn of the pine tree
and from the bamboo
learn of the bamboo
Basho
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One moon shows in every pool
in every pool the one moon
Zen Forest Saying
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The world is like a mirror you see?
smile and your friends smile back
Japanese Zen saying
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are
where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen Zenji
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe
that the mind is like a little man within
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The mind of the past is ungraspable
the mind of the future is ungraspable
the mind of the present is ungraspable
Diamond Sutra
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The obstacle is the path
Zen proverb
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Even to speak the word Buddha
is dragging it in the mud soaking wet
Blue Cliff Record
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Zen is not some kind of excitement but
concentration on our usual everyday routine
Shunryu Suzuki
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Student says
I am very discouraged
what should I do?
Master says
encourage others
Zen proverb
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The body is the tree of enlightenment
the mind like a clear mirror stand
time and gain wipe it diligently
don't let it gather dust
Shenxiu
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Enlightenment is basically not a tree
and the clear mirror is not a stand
fundamentally there is not a single thing
where can dust collect
Huineng
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The website you seek
cannot be located now
endless others exist
Internet Zen Haiku
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Form does not differ from emptiness
emptiness does not differ from form
form itself is emptiness
emptiness itself is form
so too are feeling
cognition
formation and consciousness
Heart Sutra
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All conditioned things are impermanent
be a lamp unto yourself
Buddha's last words
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A flower falls
even though we love it
and a weed grows
even though we do not love it
Dogen Zenji
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It is the thoughtlife that pollutes
Jesus
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We do not learn by experience
but by our capacity for experience
Buddha
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is
to suppose that I am here and you are out there
Yasutani Roshi
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Beyond
beyond
totally beyond
perfectly beyond
enlightenment
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