Quotes About Meditation

It was through him that the novices began to practise levitation.

Sometimes these cogitations still amazeThe troubled midnight and the noon's repose.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—Lean on a garden urn—Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

At the still point of the turning world.Neither flesh nor fleshless.

I built my hut in a zone of human habitation,Yet near me there sounds no noise of horse or coach. Would you know how that is possible?A heart that is distant creates a wilderness around it.

Es cortando con toda atadura sea cual sea, despersonalizándose de pies a cabeza, como el alma abismada en sí misma se muestra con todo del poder de su origen indecible.

No se puede comprender el zen a través de los libros y conferencias. Se trata de descubrir en nosotros el origen de la vida manifestada. No podemos nutrirnos de la imagen de la manzana, ni podemos saber sin tocarla si el agua está caliente o fría.

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Ever been in Jail? No. But I'm often alone.

Where roads are made I lose my way. In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track. The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons. And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

Silence speaks when words can't.

Silence is true wisdom's reply.

INSOMNIA = 1:51 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:52 A.M. + ETERNITY + 1:53 A.M. + ETERNITY

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

La vie et la mort sont identiques.

Quand notre activité se termine, quand notre vie est finie, alors, il faut mourir. Il faut comprendre la mort.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well

When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree

It is the very mind itself That leads the mind astray; Of the mind, Do not be mindless.

Seek the still of prayer that you may know yourself and make order of what is required of you.

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But