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- Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen…
- If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice,…
- It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular…
- If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or…
- Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets…
- The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in…
- Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and…
- The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.
- The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we…
- To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.
- In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit,…
- In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are…
- In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't…
- The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy…
- The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
- The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against…
- Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
- You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind…
- There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.
- In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.
- There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind.
- The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten…
- Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them.…
- The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
- Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we…
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