Here’s my compilation of top 10 Zen quotes from various sources:
- A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered ‘How am I supposed to know?’
‘How do you not know? You’re a Zen master!’ exclaimed the samurai.
‘Yes, but not a dead one,’ Hakuin answered. - Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
- If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- The tighter you squeeze the less you have.
- When you reach the top, keep climbing.
- A river too pure, yields no fish.
- Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
- From the withered tree, a flower blooms.
- The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
- When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.
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I don’t know why…..but I keep getting this image in my mind when I read the 4th quote in the above list……if you know what I mean doctor
JEEZ MAN… nt intended ‘that’ way… lol btw!
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Old Master’s words always make me smile.
As their observation is such deep down,
its tickled the bottom my stomach.
Ha Ha Ha