John Daido Loori Quotes
The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.
To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.
There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.
To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.
In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.
It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.
Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.
