Zen Proverb

What you possess, you lose.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

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

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

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

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.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Zen is not an art, it’s not a religion. It’s a realisation.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.