Zen Proverb

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

What you possess, you lose.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

The ordinary mind is the way.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

What was never lost can never be found.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.