Unagitated Quotes by Taisen Deshimaru

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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…
• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making…
• 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…
• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination…
• 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…
• 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…
• Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

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