Zen Master Quotes

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

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.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

True wisdomis not borrowed knowledgeit must be basedon my own experience.That which I learn from othersis memory, not wisdom

Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.