72 Quotes by Shunya about zen
"You are a glass of water separated from the blue ocean. Stop looking for blue colour powder. What you are missing is not colour but inner depth."
"The universe looks different from different angles. Everyone is right from their perspective. If you say, 'No. Some are right. Others are wrong , then you are also right. There is no absolute right or wrong. Absolute is just silence of nothingness."
"Be it a happy song or a sad song, you don't think about its end while listening to it. Inner journey is like a song. Yes, it will end. But if you are thinking about the end, you haven't tuned into the song yet."
"You drop your heavy luggage at departure airport and pick it up at your arrival airport. Being possessive about things and people will only deny you entry into flights of life. Trust the higher powers. What is yours will remain yours."
"Enjoy the present moment. Enjoy the journey. Because you are moving on an ENDLESS hill road. You are coming back to the same point again and again, maybe slightly higher or lower."
"Your mind is like a device you are wearing. Play with it instead of being played by it. You can easily play with one setting of this device: Focus. Focus only when required. At home, you are relaxed. But your mind is narrowly focussed on TV, fridge, phone and bed. De-focus and take in the whole surrounding. Feel the air touching your skin. hear so many sounds reaching your ears, sit on the floor and see your room without focussing on particular objects."
"Why are trees green? Because of Chlorophyll. But why is that green? Because it absorbs all light except green. But why?Why has no answer. Just wonder how and stay in the state of wonder. Accepting an answer of why kills the wonder of how."
"Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations."
"I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If youhave stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you."
"We can create some information aboutBuffalo, milk and its nutritional values. Wecan exchange that information with each other for money, appreciation etc.A monk living alone in jungle doesn't knowwords such as Buffalo, milk or nutrition. Hejust wonders, "Green grass enters into this big black thing and a white liquid comes out of it. How!" He can't exchange this wonder with anyone but it transports him to eternity."