There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Fredrico Fellini |
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
Shunryu Suzuki |
Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of "A Liberated One."
Huang-po |
It's glorious the things an empty self sees!
I walk the stream to its very source,sit and watch the clouds rise....
If by chance I meet an old woodsman,
we talk and laugh-no rush to get home.
Wang-wei
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To enjoy the world without judgement is what a realized life is like.
Charlotte Joko Beck |
I am free when I am within myself.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
A superior vessel takes a long time to complete.
Zen Proverb |
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
Henry David Thoreau |
Someone asked, "What am I?" Guangfan answered, "There is nothing in the whole universe that is not you."
Zen Mondo |
I went and I returned. It was nothing special. Rozan famous for its misty mountains; Sekko for its water.
Chinese Saying |
Ordinaryu men hate solitude.
But the Master makes use of it,
embracing his aloneness, realizing he
is one with the whole universe.
Lao-tzu |
If the wrong person preaches a right
teaching, even a right teaching becomes
wrong. If the right person expounds a wrong
teaching, even a wrong teaching becomes
right.
Muso Kokushi |
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
Li Po |
Under the leaves
Of a morning glory;
Cat's eyes.
Natsume Soseki |
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco |
I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen |
The image of the Master:
one glimpse
and we are in love.
Ikkyu |
Zen is the vehicle of reality.
Jim Harrison |
The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
Of an endless past.
Listen: you've heard everything.
Shinkichi Takahashi |
Strike your own evening drum, morning bell,
then shut the door. Lamp burning low
by a solitary pillow;
gray ashes where just now you stirred
the stove to red.
Lie and listen to raindrops splattering the window.
Su T'ung-po |
God is in me or else not at all.
Wallace Stevens |
Catch
the vigorous horse
of your mind.
Zen saying |
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