Zen Proverb

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

The ordinary mind is the way.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

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

What you possess, you lose.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.

The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.