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  • #181
    Adyashanti
    “The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned”
    Adyashanti

  • #182
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #183
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

    The more you look the more you see.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #184
    “When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.”
    Sheila Burke

  • #185
    Kamand Kojouri
    “When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.”
    Kamand Kojouri

  • #186
  • #187
    “Sometimes you’re going to
    shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces.
    Either way, it’s okay.”
    Sheila Burke

  • #188
    “When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love.”
    Sheila Burke

  • #189
    “Everything is in the root.
    If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.”
    Sheila Burke

  • #190
    Nikki Rowe
    “The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.”
    Nikki Rowe

  • #191
    Nikki Rowe
    “Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.”
    Nikki Rowe

  • #192
    “When I think of Tao,
    I think of the artist
    Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques.
    I can hear him say,
    “It’s your tree, you can make it
    look any way you want to.”
    Sheila Burke

  • #193
    “It’s about letting yourself feel,
    but not wallow;
    it’s about leaning into love, not fear,
    as the preferred force in your life.”
    Sheila Burke

  • #194
    Kamand Kojouri
    “The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.”
    Kamand Kojouri

  • #195
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: zen

  • #196
    Bodhidharma
    “People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.”
    Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  • #197
    Bodhidharma
    “The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.”
    Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  • #198
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.”
    Thích Nhất Hạnh, How to Sit

  • #199
    Natsume Sōseki
    “All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you've constructed two separate worlds—one inside your head and one outside. Just the fact that you tolerate this enormous dissonance—why, that's a great intangible failure already.”
    Sōseki Natsume, And Then

  • #200
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh

  • #201
    D.T. Suzuki
    “The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand ; I take a book from the other side of the desk ; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighbouring wood: � in all these I am practising Zen, I am living Zen. No wordy discussions is necessary, nor any explanation. I do not know why � and there is no need of explaining, but when the sun rises the whole world dances with joy and everybody’s heart is filled with bliss. If Zen is at all conceivable, it must be taken hold of here.”
    D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

  • #202
    Alan W. Watts
    “Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.”
    Alan W. Watts

  • #203
    Sengcan
    “When no discriminating thoughts arise,
    the old mind ceases to exist.
    When thought objects vanish,
    the thinking-subject vanishes,
    as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.
    Things are objects because of the subject;
    the mind is such because of things.
    Understand the relativity of these two
    and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.
    In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable
    and each contains in itself the whole world.
    If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine
    you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.”
    Sengcan

  • #204
    Sengcan
    “If the eye never sleeps,
    all dreams will naturally cease.
    If the mind makes no discriminations,
    the ten thousand things are as they are,
    of single essence.
    To understand the mystery of this One essence
    is to be released from all entanglements.
    When all things are seen equally
    the timeless Self-essence is reached.
    No comparisons or analogies are possible
    in this causeless, relationless state.

    Consider movement stationary
    and the stationary in motion,
    both movement and rest disappear.
    When such dualities cease to exist
    Oneness itself cannot exist.
    To this ultimate finality
    no law or description applies.”
    Sengcan

  • #205
    David Foster Wallace
    “The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #206
    David Foster Wallace
    “Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #207
    Dermot Davis
    “Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.”
    Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

  • #208
    Huang Po
    “The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.”
    Huang Po

  • #209
    Robert Greene
    “The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.”
    Robert Greene, Mastery

  • #210
    ō
    “A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.”
    ō, How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment



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