187 Quotes About Zen-buddhism

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

We still have not yet fully understood electrons and nuclei; for scientists, a speck of dust is very exciting. A particle of dust is a marvel.

Only when you allow yourself the right to die, do you give yourself permission to live.

Human thoughts are the most changeable thing in the world. The minute you're happy to have one, it's gone. The second you're pleased to be free of one, it's back. Maybe a thought is there, maybe it isn't: you can't put your finger on it for sure.

The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger:All beginning comes to an end.

While psychiatry is concerned with the question of why some people become insane, the real question is why most people do not become insane.

It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.