You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. — Taisen Deshimaru Each day Copy Share Image
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Taisen Deshimaru Crush 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… — Taisen Deshimaru Always running 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… — Taisen Deshimaru Achieve 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 Action Copy Share Image
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. — Taisen Deshimaru Cutting Copy Share Image
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order. — Taisen Deshimaru Cosmic 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… — Taisen Deshimaru Alive 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… — Taisen Deshimaru Buddhist 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… — Taisen Deshimaru Bottom 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… — Taisen Deshimaru Analysis Copy Share Image
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. — Taisen Deshimaru Beautiful Copy Share Image
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist." — Taisen Deshimaru Said Copy Share Image
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Taisen Deshimaru Giving Copy Share Image
If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is… — Taisen Deshimaru Achieve Copy Share Image
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of… — Taisen Deshimaru Action Copy Share Image
What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position… — Taisen Deshimaru Continuing Copy Share Image
In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and… — Taisen Deshimaru Body Copy Share Image
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the… — Taisen Deshimaru Art Copy Share Image
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