187 Quotes About 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.