187 Quotes About Zen-buddhism

However, for human beings, practice is much too tiresome. We want to show our appreciation like sightseers, without doing it ourselves. Like spectator sports, which are very popular, the Zen fad is really a spectator Zen or Zen sightseeing fad.Roshi, Kosho Uchiyama. Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Kindle Locations 2165-2167). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.

I haven't learned how to confront a problem by avoiding it.

I feel like a single-celled bacterium that has taken up permanent residence in the welcoming darkness of my intestinal track—content to do my part in the ongoing work of digestion even though I know nothing of “food” or “nourishment” or the impossibly larger multicelled biped that believes itself to be 'David.

Careful! Even moonlit dewdrops, If you’re lured to watch, Are a wall before the Truth. — Sogyo

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

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.

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

[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;

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