is the art of seeing
into the nature of one's being,
and it points the way
from bondage to freedom.
D.T. SUZUKI
the single thought
Of Buddha's teaching in my heart,
I cannot help but hear the many
crickets' voices calling as well.
ISUMI SHIKIBU
We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms,
But it is much harder for us
To fall away from our own
Attachment to the world
ZEN WISDOM
I gained
An unobstructed view
of the moonlight sky
ZEN WISDOM
find simplicity.
From discord,
find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
This sudden sun emerges
Along a mountain trail
BASHO
I, Chuang Tzu's
dreaming heart.
a beginners mind.
There are many possibilities
in a beginners mind,
but in the expert few.
SUSKI ROSHI
That state of centeredness
which is here and now.
ALAN WATTS
Moonlit water drops
From the crane's bill
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
See the world through your Heart.
MZ
When I blow away ash,
To watch the crimson
Of the glowing fire
And hear the water boil.
TACHIBANA AKEMI
Spring comes,
And the grass grows
By itself.
ZEN WISDOM (SAYING)
Reach the depth of the source.
Branching streams cannot compare
to this source.
Sitting alone in a great silence,
even though the heavens turn
and the earth is upset,
you will not even blink
NYOGEN SENZAKI
There is no place in Buddhism for using effort.
Just be ordinary and nothing special.
Relieve your bowels, pass water,
Put your clothes on
and eat your food.
Ignorant people will laugh at me,
But wise will understand.
LIN-CHI
Not clinging to birth and death,
Working with deep compassion
for all sentient beings,
respecting those over you
and pitying those below you,
with out any detesting or desiring,
worrying or lamentation—
This is what is called Buddha
Do not Search beyond it.
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
The resting place for the mind is the heart
BUDDHIST MONK
Do not seek the truth.
Only cease to cherish options.
ZEN SAYING
Even a speck of dust
or grain of sand is real
Yet nothing is real
Everything is illusory
Like the moon reflected in water
Neither real or unreal
is the infinite void
ZEN POEM, VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST MONK
Everything that begins also ends.
Make peace with that and all will be well.
THE BUDDHA
That is,
if you are attached to Zen mind,
Then you have a problem,
And your way is very narrow.
Throwing away Zen mind
is correct Zen mind.
Only keeping the question,
What is the best way of helping
other people?
SEUNG SAHN
To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
Leaves no tracks.
One who excels as a warrior
Does not appear formidable.
One who excels in fighting
Is never aroused by anger.
One who excels in employing others
Humbles himself before them.
ZEN TRADITION
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Zen of doing anything is doing with a particular
concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of
mind that brings the experience of enlightenment
and, through that experience happiness.
D. T SUZUKI
of what we have thought.
It is founded on our thoughts,
It is made up of our thoughts
THE DHAMMAPADA
but thinking makes it so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ask not what tomorrow may bring
But count as blessing
Every day that fate allows you.
HORACE
Every Day is a good day.
UNMON
Every thing comes at its appointed time
I CHING
Do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind
On the present moment.
THE BUDDHA
If you really know how to live,
what better way to start the day
than with a smile?
Smiling helps you approach the day
with gentleness and understanding.
Smile with your whole being.
THICH NHAT HANH
The Universe doesn't make mistakes
CHRIS PRENTISS
Further than that all
human knowledge
Is moonshine.
H.L. MENCKEN
Your worst enemy cannot harm you
As much as your own thoughts,
unguarded.
But once mastered,
No one can help you as much.
THE DHAMMAPADA
TAISEN DESHIMARU
Reach the depth of the source.
Branching streams
Cannot compare to this source!
Sitting alone in a great silence,
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The new day is born
Into eternity at night will return.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Give thanks for the morning light.
Give thanks for life and strength.
Give thanks for your food.
And give thanks for the joy of living.
And if perchance you see no reason to give thanks
Rest assured the fault is yours.
AMERICAN INDIAN SAYING
Even if it is painful and lonely
associate with worthy companions
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
To see the things of the present moment
Is to see all that is now,
All that has been since time began,
And all that shall be unto the world's end;
For all things are of
One kind and one form
MARCUS AURELIUS
The sage blends everything into a
harmonious whole. He is unmindful
of the confusion and the gloom,
and equalizes the humble and the
honourable.
CHUANG TZU
Everything that happens to us is for
our complete benefit.
CHRIS PRENTISS
The only way to make sense out of
change is to plunge with it, move
with it, and join in the dance.
ALAN WATTS
how better wash away
world's dust?
He who has once known contentment
The contentment that
Comes simply through being content
Will never again be otherwise than contented.
TAO TE CHING
To find perfect composure in the midst of change
is to find nirvana
SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI
When you can be calm
in the midst of activity,
This is the true state of nature...
When you can be happy
in the midst of hardship,
then you see the true potential of the mind
HAUCHU DAOREN
you will not be overcome by it.
VALLUVAR
Know all things like this
A mirage, a cloud castle
Nothing appears as it is.
THE BUDDHA
The universe always strikes you at
your weakest point
Because that's what needs most
strengthening
CHRIS PRENTISS
We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms
But it is much harder for us
To fall away from our own
Attachment to the world
ZEN WISDOM
The miracle is not to fly in the air or walk on water,
but to walk on the earth
CHINESE PROVERB
Do not lose your self in the future
The past no longer is.
The future is yet to come.
Looking very deeply at life as it is
here and now;
The practitioner dwells in stability and freedom
BHADDEKARATTA SUTTA
The present moment is a wonderful moment
THICH NHAT HANH
If the mind is never aroused toward objects,
Then wherever you walk is the site of enlightenment
POA-CHIH
Never say “cannot” for you are infinite
Even time and space are as nothing compared
With your nature.
You can do anything
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
This is why you have it.
Don't fear, don't contract,
Open and enjoy.
MZ
The Birds have vanished into the sky
And now the last cloud fades away.
We sit together, the mountain and I,
Until only the mountain remains
LI PO
To adopt what is wholesome,
To purify the heart and mind:
This is the teaching of the Buddha.
THE BUDDHA
If you want to be happy,
Be.
TOLSTOY
The Only truth you find at the top of the mountain
Is the truth you brought with you.
ZEN SAYING
The gap between what is and what
“should be” is an ocean of distress.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Simplicity, patience and compassion,
These three are your great treasures,
Simple actions and in thought,
You return to the source of being,
Patience with both friends and enemies,
You accord with the way things are,
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.
TAO TE CHING
Contentment is the great elixir
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment
I know this a wonderful moment.
THICH NHAT HANH
If you are in the moment,
you are in the infinite.
SVAMI PRAJNANPAD
Of what avail is it if we can travel
to the moon,
If we cannot cross the abyss that
separates us from ourselves,
This is the most important of all journeys
And without it all of the rest are useless
THOMAS MERTON
exempt from any form
Of feelings but is not bound or
governed by them.
The arrow will hurt, but the pain of
the body will not be matched by the
sorrow and struggle in the mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Within your own house swells the treasure of joy,
So why do you go begging from door to door?
SUFI SAYING
Surrendering the story is not a dismissal of the
wounded leg, but an empowerment, releasing the
capacity to care for what needs to be cared for with
compassion and responsiveness, letting go of all the
extra layers of fear, apprehension, and blame.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
In the pursuit of knowledge,
every day something is gained.
In the pursuit of freedom,
everyday something is let go.
TAO TE CHING
Renunciation is not getting rid of
things of this world,
But accepting that they pass away
ROBERT AITKEN ROSHI
Practicing meditation is to be aware
to smile, to breathe.
THICH NHAT HANH
When you sit, just sit.
Just be your ordinary natural self
in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking
for Buddhahood.
When you're tired, lie down.
The fool will laugh at you
but the wise man will understand.
LIN CHI
among dawn flowers,
the face of God.
What is this moment lacking?
ZEN QUESTION
No one who truly loves themselves
would harm another,
For they would be harming themselves.
THE BUDDHA
Everyone sooner or later,
Sits down to a basket of consequences
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Long accustomed to contemplating compassion,
I no longer see a difference between myself and other.
MILAREPA
The mind a mirror bright,
Carefully we polish them hour by hour,
And let no dust alight.
There is no bodhi tree,
Nor is there mirror bright,
Buddha nature shines clear and bright,
Where can dust alight
HUI NENG
Better than a thousand careless words
is one single word that gives peace.
Better than a hundred years lived heedlessness,
Without contemplation,
Is one single day lived in wisdom
and deep contemplation.
Better than a hundred years lived in confusion,
Is a single day lived with courage and wise intention.
THE DHAMMAPADA
Nothing can do us more harm than
a thought unguarded
But once understood there is nothing
that can be a greater friend,
Not even your father and mother.
THE BUDDHA
our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
and nourishes us.
Earth takes us back again.
Birth and death are present
in every moment.
THICH NHAT HANH
Death is extraordinary like life,
when we know how to live.
You cannot live without dying.
You cannot live if you do not die
psychologically every minute.
KRISHNAMURTI
When we begin to practice the basic meditation of tranquillity meditation [shamatha], we may find that our mind won't stay still for a moment. But this condition is not permanent and will change as we practice. Eventually we will be able to place our mind at rest at will, at which point we will have successfully alleviated the manifest disturbance of the disturbing emotions. After developing tranquillity meditation, we can then apply the second technique, of insight meditation [vipashyana], which consists of learning to recognise and directly experience the nature of our own mind. This nature is referred to as emptiness. When we recognise this nature, and rest in it, then all of the disturbing emotions that arise dissolve into this emptiness and are no longer afflictions. This is the freedom, which is called Buddhahood.
KHENCHEN THRANGU RINPOCHE
I'd rather be happy than right.
RAM DASS
Out behind the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing
There is a field, I'll meet you there,
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about
Ideas, language, even the phrase
“each other”
Does not make sense
RUMI
If you want to know what compassion is,
Look into the eyes of a mother as
She cradles her fevered, ill child.
THE BUDDHA
The fundamental delusion of humanity
is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
HAKUUN YASUTANI ROSHI
event distress,
But can always be present, awake,
and receive each moment with
compassion and simplicity.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
is beauty of the heart.
RUMI
I am unable to restrain external things,
but I shall restrain my own mind.
What need is there to restrain anything else?
SHANTIDEVA
Mindfulness is a shortcut to happiness.
BUDDHIST MONK
moon reflected on the water,
The moon does not get wet,
nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great
The moon is reflected even by
a puddle an inch wide,
The whole moon and the entire sky
are reflected in one dew drop
on the grass.
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
The Real voyage of discovery lies not
in finding new landscapes,
But in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
In this moment what is lacking.
ZEN SAYING
Learn to be happy, here and now,
under all conditions; and to include
others' happiness in your own joy.
Go out of your way to make others happy.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
Learning to meditate is the greatest gift
you can give yourself in this life.
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
If the inner mind has been tamed,
the outer enemy cannot harm you.
ATISA
What life can compare with this?
Sitting quietly by the window,
I watch leaves fall and the flowers bloom
as the seasons come and go.
SECCHO
Not thinking about anything is Zen.
Once you know this, walking, standing,
sitting or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
To know that the mind is empty is to see the Buddha.
Using the mind to look for reality is delusion.
Not using the mind to look for reality
is awareness.
Freeing yourself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMA
from where?
which tree?
Work without working at.
LAO TZU
When sitting, sit;
when standing, stand.
Above all, don't wobble.
ZEN SAYING
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
and trouble will follow you.
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we made the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
and happiness will follow you
As your shadow unshakeable.
THE DHAMMAPADA
Every day is a fortunate day
SUZUKI ROSHI
The foolish reject what they see;
The wise reject what they think.
ZEN SAYING
you will walk freely and undisturbed
SENG-TS'AN
The truth is always near at hand,
within your reach.
D.T SUZUKI
The whole world is a door of liberation,
inviting us to enter.
ZEN SAYING
think of the consequences.
CONFUCIUS
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
CHINESE PROVERB
That every day
Is the best day of the year
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind
ATHISA
flowers
of this painful world.
what is not said without words
To obey the law too subtle to be written
To worship the unnameable,
And to embrace the unformed
LAO TZU
To breathe out, let go of the story,
And find the generosity to be
wholeheartedly present
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Fragrance always clings to the hand
that gives you roses.
CHINESE PROVERB
It is easier to go up the hill than down,
But the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT
There are no ordinary moments.
DAN MILLMAN
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
LAO TZU
From the withered tree the flower blooms.
SHOYO ROKO
This zendo is not a peaceful haven
but a furnace room for combustion
of our egotistical delusions.
EIDO ROSHI
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable,
but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
CHINESE WISDOM
The three great vices seem to be
efficiency, punctuality, and the desire
for achievement and success.
They are the things that make people so unhappy
and so nervous.
LIN YUTANG
By letting it go it gets all done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try,
the world is beyond the winning.
LAO TZU
Grant yourself a moment of peace and you will understand how foolishly you have scurried about. Learn to be silent and you will notice that you have talked too much.
TSCHEN TSCHI JU
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
LIN YUTANG
all victims of the same existence.
No one is better than the next person.
DENG MING-DAO
With the dawn in solitude,
I begin to really live.
It makes me treasure
Every single moment of life
GLORIA VANDERBILT
The best person is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things
and does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.
TAO TE CHING
The softest things in the world
overcome the hardest things in the world.
LAO TZU
The best soldier does not attack.
The superior fighter succeeds without violence.
The greatest conqueror wins without struggle.
The most successful manager leads
without dictating.
FROM THE TAO TE CHING
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
FROM THE TAO TE CHING
LAO TZU
So if loss of what gives
happiness causes you
distress when it fades, you
can now understand that
such happiness is worthless.
CHUANG TZU
all that remains of soldiers' dreams.
BASHO
and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them—that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward
in whatever way they will.
TAO TE CHING
What the caterpillar calls the end,
the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
LAO TZU
A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
LAO TZU
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
LAO TZU
birds and clouds
look old.
CHINESE PROVERB
To be the best person be careful of these things:
Your face that it may always reflect kindness; your
manners that they might show respect for other
people; your words that they may be true; your
dealings with other people that they may be fair.
CONFUCIUS
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
LAO TZU
simplicity, reduce selfishness,
have few desires.
LAO TZU
He who knows he has enough is rich.
TAO TE CHING
Silence is a source of great strength.
LAO TZU
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
LAO TZU
is the greatest happiness.
ZEN WISDOM
Whenever you hear that someone
else has been successful, rejoice.
Always practice rejoicing for others —
whether your friend or your enemy.
If you cannot practice rejoicing,
no matter how long you live,
you will not be happy.
LAO TZU
We sat together, the forest and I,
merging into silence. Until
only the forest remained.
LI PO
Drinking tea, eating rice, I pass
my time as it comes; looking down at the stream,
looking up at the mountain, how serene and relaxed
I feel indeed!
ZEN POEM
As we do consistent, patient zazen we begin to know that we are nothing but attachments; they rule our lives. But we never lose an attachment by saying it has to go. Only as we gain true awareness of its true nature does it quietly and imperceptibly wither away; like a sandcastle with waves rolling over, it just smoothes out and finally Where is it? What was it?
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
the whole universe surrenders.
LAO TZU
water wears away rock.
Spirit overcomes force.
The weak will undo the mighty.
May we learn to see things backwards,
inside out, and upside down.
LAO TZU
Contemplating the clear moon
Reflecting a mind empty as an open sky
Drawn by beauty, I lose myself
In the shadows it casts.
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
To make sense out of change
Is to plunge with it
Move with it,
And join the dance.
ALAN WATTS
Outside teaching;
part from tradition.
Not founded on words and letters.
Pointing directly
to the human mind.
Seeing into one's nature
and attaining.
BUDDHAHOOD
If you cant find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
Seeing through to essential nature
is the window of enlightenment.
HAKUUN YASUTANI ROSHI
Those with limited views
Are fearful and irresolute,
The faster they hurry,
The slower they go.
SENG-TS'AN
Themselves to the Way,
The Way readily Lends its power
TAO TE CHING
We can find ourselves leaning into the
future that has not arrived,
Or leaning back into the past that
has long gone
This is the very moment that we
can calmly stand in the moment
Letting go of our resistance on the
breath and soften our warm hearts
MZ
One who does not grasp hold of
anything is not agitated.
One who is not agitated is close
to freedom.
THE BUDDHA
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love, a gift to that
person, a beautiful thing.
MOTHER THERESA
Stop talking and thinking, then
there is nowhere you cannot go.
Returning to the source,
you gain the meaning; chasing forms, you
lose the wholeness. A moment's
true insight transcends all.
SOSAN
My mind is the guiding-reign
THE BUDDHA
the world is at peace.
CHINESE PROVERB
is fidelity to simplicity,
rejecting ambition and analysis
and elaborate thought,
or even elaborate concern.
A breath of Zen blows all these cobwebs
out the window.
THOMAS MERTON
Upon goodness of heart
is built wise attention;
Upon wise attention
is built liberating wisdom
THE BUDDHA
The definition of an enlightened person
is that they always have what they need.
Whether sitting alone on a mountain,
Or in the middle of a crowd,
There is no sense of anything absent or lacking.
BAKER ROSHI
Curtain Mount Fuji, then make it
More beautiful to see
BASHO
and let your mind be free:
Stay centered by accepting whatever
you are doing. This is the ultimate.
CHUANG TZU
The more you are able to hear.
ZEN SAYING
And tomorrow may never come,
I have resolved from this day on,
I will do the business I can honestly,
have all the good I can do willingly,
and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The true man sees what the eye sees,
and does not add to some thing that
is not there.
He hears what the ears hear
and does not detect imaginary
undertones or overtones.
He is not busy with hidden meaning.
CHUNG TZU
Is not some kind of excitement,
But merely concentration
On our usual every day life.
SHRUNRYU SUZUKI
That will never betray
CONFUCIUS
we are the chaos.
MZ
Smiling,
Present moment,
Wonderful moment.
THICH NHAT HANH
You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI
BYRON KATIE
The only true strength is
a strength that people do not fear.
LAO TZU
every statement is an ulcer;
when you're enlightened,
every word is wisdom.
ZHIQU
No thought, no reflection,
no analysis, no cultivation,
no intention; let it settle itself.
YING-AN
Form is empty of a separate self,
but it is full of everything else in the cosmos.
The same is true with feelings, perceptions,
mental formations, and consciousness.
THICH NHAT HANH
No matter how many years
you sit doing zazen,
you will never become
anything special.
ZEN MASTER SAWAKI
Let your mind wander in simplicity,
blend your spirit with the vastness,
follow along with things the way they are,
and make no room for personal views—
then the world will be governed.
CHUANG-TZU
MAHATMA GANDHI
impermanent.
Work out your own salvation with diligence.
THE BUDDHA'S LAST WORDS
Do not mistake understanding for realisation,
and do not mistaken realisation for liberation.
TIBETAN SAYING
Giving is the first of the six perfections.
Mind is beyond measure.
Things are given beyond measure.
Moreover, in giving, mind transforms
the gift and the gift transforms mind.
ZEN MASTER DOGEN
ZEN SAYING
He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other—take it that such a one has attained Perfection.
BHAGAVAD GITA
Do not speak—unless it improves on silence.
BUDDHIST SAYING
The journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.
LAO TZU
If you understand,
things are just as they are;
if you do not understand,
things are just as they are.
ZEN PROVERB
Your Treasure House is in yourself,
it contains all you need.
HUI HAI
When the pupil is ready to learn,
a teacher will appear.
ZEN PROVERB
You enter by yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB
chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment:
chop wood, carry water.
OLD ZEN SAYING
We cannot see our reflection in running water.
It is only in still water that we can see.
TAOIST PROVERB
The world is like a mirror.
Smile and your friends smile back.
JAPANESE ZEN SAYING
we love it and a weed grows
even though we do not love it.
DOGEN ZENJI
No road to happiness or sorrow...
Find them in yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB
The Zen Master Nan-sen was asked.
Everyday life is the path,
he answered.
MASTER NAN-SEN
If you light a lamp for somebody,
it will also brighten your own path.
BUDDHIST SAYING
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure,
joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
THE BUDDHA
It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes,
but an even wiser man to learn from others.
ZEN PROVERB
Not thinking of good, not thinking of evil—
tell me, what was your original face
before your mother and father were born?
ZEN KOAN
In Zen there is nothing to explain,
Nothing to teach that will add
to your knowledge.
Unless it grows out of yourself,
no knowledge is really of value to you
a borrowed plumage never grows.
D. T. SUZUKI
Zen is expressed simply by sitting
SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI
I vow to save them all
Confusions are inexhaustible,
I vow to cut them all
Dharma gates are boundless,
I vow to enter them all,
The Buddha-way is unattainable,
I vow to attain it.
BODHISATTVA VOW
The supreme good is like water,
Which nourishes all things without trying to.
LAO TZU
You should practice like your head is on fire.
OLD ZEN SAYING
Softness triumphs over hardness,
Feebleness over strength.
What is more malleable is
always superior over that
which is immovable.
LAO TZU
Anything on the path can be used for realisation.
LO JONG TEACHINGS (TIBETAN TERM)
Try not to localize the mind anywhere,
but let it fill up the whole body,
let it flow throughout the totality of your being.
When this happens, you use your hands
where they are needed, you use your legs and eyes
where they are needed and no time or energy
to waste.
TAKUAN SOHO (ADVICE TO A YOUNG SAMURAI)
The ear hears sounds but the mind does not move
HUI-NENG (ON THE ENLIGHTENED MIND)
Every time I see the ocean
Every time
BASHO
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I think of all the places I've been,
Chasing from one famous spot to another,
Who would guess I'd end up
under a pine tree,
Clasping my knees in the
whispering cold?
HAN-SHAN
Illusory dreams, phantom flowers—
Sixty-seven years
A white bird vanishes in the mist,
Autumn waters merge with the sky.
ZEN MASTER HUNG-CHIH
Elements of the Self,
come and go like clouds
without purpose.
ZEN SAYING
of conceptual thought,
you will have accomplished everything.
HUANG PO
they are is the secret of life.
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
special art of living,
Our teaching is just to live,
always in reality,
In its exact sense.
SHUNRYU SUZUKI
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
THE BUDDHA
There is a task to do, and we just need to do it,
fear or no fear. I struggle with my life because
instead of just doing what needs to needs to be done,
I fight the underlying fear.
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
In sitting, just sit.
Above all, don't wobble.
YUN-MEN
Anything on the path can be used.
CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
PROVERBS 23:7
be happy, be.
HENRY THOREAU
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
MENCIUS
I am not ashamed to confess
that I am ignorant
of what I do not know.
CICERO
dares to die
A man with inward courage
dares to live.
LAO TZU
so admired as a man
Who knows how to bear
unhappiness with courage.
SENECA
Fear always springs from ignorance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
HELEN KELLER
our life is what our thoughts
make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
All that we are arises
with our thoughts.
With our thoughts
we make the word.
THE BUDDHA
change your thinking.
MZ
In the World of Reality
there is no self.
There is no other-than-self.
SENG-T'SAN
fabricator of illusions;
reality can be attained only
by someone who is detached.
SIMONE WEIL
are always paradoxical.
LAO TZU
and the very emptiness is form;
Emptiness does not differ from form,
form does not differ from emptiness;
Whatever is form,
that is emptiness,
whatever is emptiness,
that is form.
HEART SUTRA
unless you continue
to remember it.
CONFUCIUS
This above all; to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man.
SHAKESPEARE
wall separating us from the self of God.
It is being to self that is
the recognition of God.
HAZART INAYAT KHAN
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Ask and it shall be given unto you.
Seek and it shall be given.
LUKE 11:9
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
RUMI
The highest wisdom is loving kindness.
THE TALMUD
is that of great loving
kindness and compassion.
THE BUDDHA
make a happy life.
It is all within yourself,
in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS
contemplating Love
and Compassion,
I have forgotten all difference
between myself and others.
MILAREPA
In your own house dwells
the treasure of joy;
So why do you go begging
from door to door?
SUFI SAYING
thoughts by stillness
And emotions by calmness.
LAO TZU
beautiful life becomes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Do not seek the truth
stop having an opinion.
SENG-T'SAN
Mankind's role is to fulfill his heaven-sent purpose
through a sincere heart that is in harmony
with all creation and love all things.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
like this river, without pause,
day and night.
CONFUCIUS
By flowing with the stream
LAO TZU
Underlying great doubt there is great satori,
where there is thorough questioning
there will be thorough going
experience of awakening.
ZEN SAYING
Awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere.
DIAMOND SUTRA
Not Knowing how near the truth is,
People seek it far away, what a pity!
They are like him who
in the midst of water,
Cries in thirst so imploringly.
HAKIUN
The true Way
In our inmost heart
Even without praying
God will be with us!
TAKUAN
If we wish to die well we,
must learn how to live well.
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
