Stephen Covey says : “Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, “How do you maintain that serenity and peace?” He replied, “I never…
Shunryu Suzuki says : “To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”
Nhat Hanh says : “In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be…
Frederick Lenz says : “The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.”
Frederick Lenz says : “The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there’s a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that’s us.”
Anthony de Mello says : “As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don’t seek the truth.”
Dogen says : “If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.”
OSHO says : “Zen is the path and I am the gate and you live in the house. You have completely forgotten – that’s what makes the possibility of making a path, to remind you. The path is only a…
OSHO says : “ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique — unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It…
OSHO says : “Zen is interested in discipline, not in teaching. It wants you to be more alert so you can see more clearly. It does not give you the answer; it gives you the eyes to see. What is…