When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
When you get there, there isn't any there there.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
To follow the path look to the master follow the master walk with the master see through the master become the master.
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
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