The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen Copy Share Image
“If you are lost in a forest at night, you can follow the North Star to find your way out. You follow… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
“A koan is like a riddle that’s supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism. For my answer, I wrote about… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.” — Musō Soseki Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism, for example, as practiced by Suzuki, the excellent Japanese mystic, has nothing to do with the superstitious and predjudiced Buddhism… — Marcelo Ramos Motta Copy Share Image
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
“So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
“Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai warrior, now old, who decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. In spite of his… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
