One World, One Way, Many Paths Wisdom Proverbs   Zen Principles, Values, Proverbs, Quotes   Buddhism Zen     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.     Life is the only thing worth living for. Everyday life is the way. Zen proverb   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   If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. Zen proverb To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. Bodhidharma If you want to get wiser, close your eyes, quiet your mind, and open your heart.   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.   A point of view makes you blind. Learn to unlearn. Quiet your mind. To understand something, become it. Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. Zen proverb     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.     Rather than chase the cat, take away the plate. Japanese proverb All know the way; few actually walk it. Bodhidharma If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it? Zen proverb   Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.       The mind should be as a mirror. The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.     When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man. Zen proverb Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon. Zen proverb     Nothing on earth can overcome an absolutely nonresistant person. Expect nothing. Appreciate everything. No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.     The more we attune to peace, the more radiant our lives become. Zen proverb     Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.     When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing. Zen proverb     Zen Quotes     Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. Bodhidharma     Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing. ~ Chien-ju     Become less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun – because that's precisely what it is! Osho   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. ~ Yuan Wu   The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Bodhidharma     You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand? ~ Hakuin Ekaku     If you don't pay attention to troubles, they take offence and leave you. This is a paradoxical rule of happy people. VadiK Inventor Author Founder     Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.     Experience life in all possible ways. The more experience you have, the more mature you become. Osho     Everything the same; everything distinct. ~ Chien-ju       The infinite is in the finite of every instant. The opposite of a great truth is also true. The water flows, but back into the ocean. The moon sinks, but is even in Heaven. Touch the hole in your life, and there flowers will bloom. Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water, after enlightenment chop wood, carry water. Day after day the sun. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Knock on the sky and listen to the sound! Time passes quickly and opportunity is lost. Each of us must strive to awaken. Do not squander your lives. Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark. Move and the way will open.     Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of flames. Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have. Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.     Cultural Intelligence   Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. – The three qualities necessary for training. Zen proverb   World Intelligence (WI) Life Philosophy: East vs. West Global Mindset The Third Eye Harmonious Mega-Innovator One World Planet of Loving Creators United Innovators Peace  &  Peacing       How to use this information       ① "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." ~ Bruce Lee ② Sleep on this information – your powerful superconscious mind will tell you how to use it when you wake up