“Quietistic meditation is easier, naturally, but a person who practices it will turn out to be just as insecure and petty as someone not enlightened at all. What is equally important, "leisure-time" meditation that separates our spiritual life from our… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“At the evening gathering the Master addressed the assembly, saying: "Sometimes I take away man and do not take away the surroundings; sometimes I… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Words can point the way, but the path must be traveled in silence.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Zen would have our perception of the world, indeed our very thoughts, be nonverbal.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Contemplation of the movement and shifting composition of sea-waves is a useful symbolical approach; for, not only are the waves and the sea identical in substance, but also a given wave does not preserve its individual identity for a single moment as the water composing it is never for an instant entirely the same; thus, by the time it reaches… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share
“Cultivation is of no use for the attainment of Tao. The only thing that one can do is to be free of defilement. When one's mind is stained with thoughts of life and death, or deliberate action, that is defilement. The grasping of the Truth is the function of everyday-mindedness. Everyday-mindedness is free from intentional action, free from concepts of… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share
“. . . the ignorant and the simple minded, not knowing that the world is what is seen of Mind itself, cling to the… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Whereas the logical mode of thought can only manipulate the world view of given paradigm, intuition can inspire genuine creativity, since it is not… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Westerners view the physical world as the operative reality and the unseen, nonphysical world as an abstraction (comforting or not, depending upon our beliefs or immediate needs, the spiritual world is said to grow less abstract to those in foxholes). But Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share
“Aesthetic ideals emerging from Zen art focus heavily on naturalness, on the emphasis of man's relation to nature. The Zen artists, as do many moderns, liked a sense of the materials and process of creation to come through in a work. But there is a subtle difference. The Zen artists frequently included in their works devices to ensure that the… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share
“The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
