Quotes About Clarity

If you're not getting through to others, the reason may not be because they "are idiots." The problem may be that you haven't figured out a simple and interesting way to communicate your messages.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

As the water manifests the brightness of the moon, the moon manifests the clarity of the water.

Zen insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem.

You cannot clear muddied water with your hand. — Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself. Who is there that can secure a state of absolute repose? But keep calm and let time go on, and the state of repose will gradually arrest.

It's not daily increase but daily decrease—hack away the unessentials!

Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Specific Teaching can be thought about as the cake; Non-specific Teaching is the icing.

You write about what you love and you write about things you're trying to make sense of.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful no matter what.