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Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.

~ Barry Graham

Barry Graham Zen Zen Buddhism

When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.

~ Barry Graham

Barry Graham Zen Zen Buddhism

You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!

~ Eugen Herrigel

Eugen Herrigel Zen

...being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!

~ Eugen Herrigel

Eugen Herrigel Zen

... the Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.

~ Eugen Herrigel

Eugen Herrigel Zen

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

~ Adyashanti

Adyashanti Changeless Nonduality Zen

This is shaping up even worse than you anticipated. Still, you feel a measure of detachment, as if you had suffered everything already and this were just a flashback. You wish that you had paid more attention when a woman you met at Heartbreak told you about Zen meditation. Think of all of this as an illusion. She can't hurt you. Nothing can hurt the samurai wh enters combat fully resolved to die. You have already accepted the inevitability of termination, as they say. Still, you'd rather not have to sit through this.

~ Jay Mcinerney

Jay Mcinerney Being Fired Losing A Job Samurai Zen

[W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Dogen Soto Zazen Zen

You integrate something by first of all accepting it. To resist any aspect of your past is to keep yourself fragmented, and to keep yourself fragmented is exactly what the built-in mechanisms of the negative beliefs in your unconscious mind are designed to do. To become whole within yourself, you must treat each and every experience that you have and ever will have as simply a stepping stone because there’s always a bigger picture. Something challenging may be happening to you right now, and you may have no conscious recognition or idea of why it’s happening, but let me assure you that you will know why one day. How many times have you said to yourself, “Wow, so that’s why it happened?” The issue isn’t really what’s going on in the present moment or what has happened back in the past, the issue is the way you’re defining or looking it…

~ Craig Krishna

Craig Krishna Challenges Experiences Happiness Integration Nonresistance Present Moment Stepping Stones Zen

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that’s what makes it hard to see.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig Philosophy Strike At The Root Zen

But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, it’s a good day to be alive. It’s this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig Big Sky Country High Altitude I Love Montana Montana Mountains Zen

[W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay

~ ;Steve Hagen

;Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

And the question of Wester religion,” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Zen

Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention.

~ Cheri Huber

Cheri Huber Awareness Quotes Mindfuless Zen

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

~ Alan W. Watts

Alan W. Watts Zen

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

Bodhidharma Bodhidharma Zen

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

Bodhidharma Bodhidharma Zen

Soldiers falling fastBattle of white and scarletBlossoms on the ground

~ David Kudler

David Kudler Aware Battle Cherry Blossoms Haiku Zen

This is not a philosophy of not looking where one is going, it is a philosophy of not making where one is going so much more important than where one is that there will be no point in going.

~ Alan W. Watts

Alan W. Watts Zen

[I]t would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind completely at rest is to be incapable of experiencing the world in which we live to the full. For one does not know the world simply in thinking about it and doing about it. One must first experience it more directly, and prolong the experience without jumping to conclusions.

~ Alan W. Watts

Alan W. Watts Zen

It has been said that if you have Zen in your life,you have no fear, no doubt, no unnecessary craving, no extreme emotions. Neither illiberal attitudes nor egotistical actions trouble you. You serve humanity humbly, fulfilling your presence in this world with loving-kindness and observing your passing as a petal falling from a flower. Serene, you enjoy life in blissful tranquility. Such is the spirit of Zen.---Zen flesh, Zen bones.

~ Paul

Paul Zen
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