ZEN QUOTES

Not thinking about anything is Zen.
Once you know this, 
walking, sitting or lying down,
everything you do is Zen.
-Bodhidharma

No snow flake ever falls 
in the wrong place.
-Zen Proverb

If you are unable to find the truth 
right where you are, 
where else do you expect to find it?
― Dōgen

He knows not where he's going,
For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination,
It's the glory of the ride.
― Edward Monkton, Zen Dog

You are full of your own opinions and speculations. 
How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?
― Nyogen Senzaki

Your Treasure House is in yourself, 
it contains all you need
― Hui Hai, Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening

If you wish to see the truth then hold 
no opinion for or against.
The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes 
is the disease of the mind.
― Sengcan, Hsin Hsin Ming

Zen is the purest of meditations: 
just sit silently, doing nothing.
― Osho

When you do something, 
you should burn yourself up completely, 
like a good bonfire,
leaving no trace of yourself.
– Shunryu Suzuki

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
– Dogen

Zen has no business with ideas.
– D.T. Suzuki

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, 
he is a sage; 
when a sage attains understanding, 
he is an ordinary man.
– Zen Proverb

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft 
can you be extremely hard and strong.
– Zen Proverb

To follow the path, 
look to the master, 
follow the master, 
walk with the master, 
see through the master, 
become the master.
– Zen Proverb

All the things that truly matter, 
beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace 
arise from beyond the mind.
– Eckhart Tolle

No thought, 
no reflection, 
no analysis, 
no cultivation, 
no intention; 
let it settle itself.
– Tilopa

The whole moon and the entire sky 
are reflected in one dewdrop 
on the grass.
-Dogen

The meaning of life is just to be alive. 
It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. 
And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic 
as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
– Alan Watts

Life isn’t as serious 
as the mind makes it out to be.
– Eckhart Tolle

Every being is in search of truth, 
but small fears go on preventing you.
– Osho

Truth can be reached only through 
the comprehension of opposites.
― Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; 
the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.
― Huang Po

When walking, walk.
When eating, eat.
-Zen Proverb

Sound of one hand clapping.
-Zen koan

The goose is out
-Zen koan

Does a dog have Buddha-nature?
-Zen koan

Not the flag, not the wind; mind is moving
-Zen koan