Zen Quotes Zen Sayings

• This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached to any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth or a death, reject them all. - Bodhidharma
   
• When you are silent, it speaks;
  When you speak, it is silent. - Yoka
   
• When no discriminating thoughts arise,
  the old mind ceases to exist. - Sosan
   
• Among the greatest treasures
  To be found on earth,
  Being of nothingness
  Is the greatest.
   
• A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher’s words, but uses his own experience to find the truth. A dull student depends on coming to a gradual understanding through his teacher’s word: a teacher has two
  kinds of students; one hears the teacher’s words without clinging to the material nor to the immaterial, without attaching to form or to nonform, Without thinking of animate objects or of inanimate objects... This is the Sagacious student; the other, who is avid for understanding, accumulates meanings, and mixes good and bad, is the dull student. -  Bodhidharma
   
• When things are no longer important, only consciousness becomes important. When things are no longer significant, a new search, a new door opens. Then you are not rushing towards the without: you start slipping into the within. The kingdom of God is within. And once you drop identifying with things, suddenly you are no longer fighting -- there is no point. You start moving with the river of existence. Arrival at home is effortless. - Osho
   
• "It is present everywhere.
  There is nothing it does not contain.
  However only those who have previously
  planted wisdom - seeds will be able
  to continuously see it. - Dogen
   
• When practitioners of Zen fail to transcend
  the world of their senses and thoughts,
  all they do has no value. - Huang Po

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