Continuing Quote by Taisen Deshimaru

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

— Taisen Deshimaru

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

— Taisen Deshimaru

We should learn to think with our fingers.

— Taisen Deshimaru

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what…

— Taisen Deshimaru

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis…

— Taisen Deshimaru

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

— Taisen Deshimaru

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

— Taisen Deshimaru

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

— Taisen Deshimaru

Think with your whole body.

— Taisen Deshimaru

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…

— Taisen Deshimaru

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is…

— Taisen Deshimaru

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks…

— Taisen Deshimaru