Zen Quotes - Page 4

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis-only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

The sacred stillness of your brilliant heart
has as the myriad wonders masqueraded.
But if you knew this secret from the start,
then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

there is no problems, only solutions".

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create a new tangle, or transform it using an old trusty pattern. A Zentangle tile is meant to be a surprise that unfolds before the creator's eyes, one stroke at a time.

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

We grow up to believe that we are supposed to somehow "become" who we are meant to be through the trial-by-fire that is life here on planet Earth.

Reality is...there's no "becoming".

It's actually all an "un-becoming", only to reunite with who you were born to be in the first place before society told you otherwise.

Zen movement is a meditative practice.