Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

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• Think with your whole body.
• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really…
• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of…
• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
• The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
• To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's…
• Think with the whole body.
• Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit…
• You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
• In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique,…
• Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
• The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
• You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
• Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a…
• We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
• 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…
• If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

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