Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place.… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
