“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“We have to make a consideration: emotional states are deeply influenced by external events, and here lies the problem. Since the external… — Andrea Dandolo Copy Share Image
“In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing… — Soren Narnia Copy Share Image
“You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers.… — Kay Larson Copy Share Image
“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
“It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy… — Joel Dinerstein Copy Share Image
“The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It… — Bassui Takusho Copy Share Image
“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, “I know… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke… — Zen Master Seung Sahn Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“What happens to the drop of wine That you pour into the sea? Does it remain itself, unchanged? It is as if… — Jacopone Da Todi Copy Share Image
“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
“Being infinite, the whole of reality is too much for the conscious human mind to grasp. The best any one of us… — Gordon MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“Why are you here? Where am I? You have come to this place… to lie in the ground? The derision in the… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
“Everything depends upon your readiness and willingness to let go into the Unknown and live from that mysterious and precious condition. The… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Death. We view death, as influenced by our upbringing. Death. The end. Game over. If we were to take Death in a… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
“Become the person of no rank. Become the noble soul, and live in this awakened way, not imitating anyone. Whatever the circumstances… — Maurine Stuart Copy Share Image
“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“13. A Buddha In Tokyo in th Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in… — Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
