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Zen is your true nature and your wise and
compassionate friend.
Zen is the Japanese
translation of the Sanskrit word
meaning meditation. Zen
is based on the practice of
transcendent
virtues with the most widely
used being generosity, moral
training, patient endurance,
energy or effort,
meditation, and
wisdom.
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Life is the only thing worth
living for.
Everyday life is the
way. |
Zen proverb |
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4 Main Zen Principles
① The denial of the
ego
② The focus on interconnectedness in the universe
③ The recognition of attachment as a source of suffering
④ The realization that human
perception is faulty |
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is
bliss. |
Bodhidharma |
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When I'm walking, I'm
walking; when I'm eating, I'm eating; when I'm sleeping, I'm
sleeping.
Sitting
peacefully doing nothing. Spring comes and the grass grows
all by itself.
The mind should be as a mirror.
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A point of view makes you
blind. Learn to unlearn. Quiet your mind. To understand something,
become it. |
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Let go or be dragged.
If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray.
The instant you
speak about a thing, you miss the mark.
One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is
bliss. |
Bodhidharma |
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When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a
sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man. |
Zen proverb |
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Better to sit all night than to go to bed with
a dragon. |
Zen proverb |
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Nothing on earth can overcome an
absolutely nonresistant person.
Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong
place.
Only the crystal-clear
question yields a transparent answer.
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When you get to the top of the mountain, keep
climbing. |
Zen proverb |
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once
you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is
Zen. |
Bodhidharma |
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Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing.
~ Chien-ju
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Become less
knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take
life as
fun – because
that's precisely what it is! |
Osho |
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what
they sought.
~ Basho
As soon as you sense any lingering or
obstruction, all of it is false imagining. Just make your mind clean
and free, like space, like a mirror, like the sun in the sky.
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Yuan Wu |
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite
afflictions and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and
delusion. |
Bodhidharma |
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You know the sound of two hands
clapping; tell me, what is the
sound of one hand?
~ Hakuin Ekaku
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Experience life in all possible ways.
The more experience you have, the more mature you become. |
Osho |
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Everything the same; everything distinct.
~ Chien-ju
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Great Faith. Great Doubt.
Great Effort.
– The three qualities necessary for
training. |
Zen proverb |
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