Zen Quotes of Zen Masters
- Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen;
Talking or silent, moving unmoving,
The essence is at ease. – Yoka - Stop talking and thinking,
And there is nothing
You will not be able to know. – Sosan - Go beyond language. Go Beyong Thought. – Bodhidharma.
- Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life.
Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality. – Hui Neng - The inner emptiness is the door to God. – Osho
- When you try to stop activity, to achieve passivity
Your very effort fills you with activity. – Sosan - The real way is not difficult. It only abhors choice and attachment. – Joshu
- Discrimination with no-mind is right. Discrimination with mind is Wrong.
When one transcends right and wrong, he is truly right. – Bodhidharma - Sitting silently, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. – Basho
- Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. – Ryokan
- Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation — all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don’t spread your attachment to worldly things. – Osho
- Do not search for the truth;
only cease to hold opinions. – Sosan
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