Quotes About Zen

Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.

Del pasado al futuro sólo hay un paso. Digan lo que digan los maestros de zen, lo que no existe es el presente.

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

Vast emptiness, nothing holy.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

I've always enjoyed this time, early in the morning, gazing intently at a pure white canvas. "Canvas Zen" is my term for it. Nothing is painted there yet, but it's more than a simple blank space. Hidden on that white canvas is what must eventually emerge. As I look more closely, I discover various possibilities, which congeal into a perfect clue as to how to proceed. That's the moment I really enjoy. The moment when existence and nonexistence coalesce.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I am a Goddess of Peace On a throne of tranquility

pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha

Buddhists like to compare the mind to a monkey—constantly chattering and hopping about from branch to branch, topic to topic.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind