187 Quotes About Zen-buddhism

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Eventually, you will go alone/ unafraid, into your life/ feeling into the dark, without doubt that/your heart is open.

[Zuzuki-roshi] I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.

Life has to be freed and lived, instead of being known.

It took me some time to realize I wasn’t experiencing my experience.

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.

I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good.

Because there's no missing puzzle piece. And there's no great mystery to solve. I'm perfect and complete exactly as I am. The world is perfect and complete exactly as it is. An my practice is learning to accept that fact regardless of what desire tells me.

Imagine you’re at a movie, and the person sitting in front of you is so huge and fat you can’t see the screen because he’s completely blocking your view. He’s also talking loudly, so you can’t hear the movie.That person is you. You can’t see the perfection of your life, as it is right now, because you’re in your own way.