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Ive always loved the religious philosophy of Zen Buddhism, for many
reasons, and one of those reasons is that just by speaking a few words, Zen
masters are able to transmit tremendously important messages that are of

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immense value to all seekers on the path to spiritual awakening. Here you
will find for yourself a collection of some (100!) of the best zen sayings and
proverbs of all time, which will hopefully help you see yourself and the world
with new, fresh eyes.

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THE PRESENT MOMENT AND MINDFULNESS

This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with
what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of
calling it work, realize it is play.- Alan Watts

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is

the step that you are taking at this moment. Thats all there
ever is.- Eckhart Tolle

If you miss the present moment, you miss your

appointment with life. That is very serious!- Thich Nhat
Hanh
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Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is
revealed right here and now.- Maezumi Roshi

If you want to change the world, start with the next person
who comes to you in need.- B. D. Schiers

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the

people were living with right now.- Byron Katie
Wherever you are, be there totally.- Eckhart Tolle
Im here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when
you want to get away.- Pema Chdrn
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is
without getting entangled in it.- Eckhart Tolle
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of
nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough
presence.- Eckhart Tolle
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Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long

enough to take another breath.- Huang Po

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.- Eckhart Tolle

When you do something, you should burn yourself up

completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of
yourself.- Shunryu Suzuki

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one

hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists
in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly
new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly
receptive.- Alan Watts

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the

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highest act of wisdom.- D.T. Suzuki

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on

which the world earth revolves slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future.- Thich Nhat Hanh

And when they played they really played. And when they
worked they really worked.- Dr. Seuss

INTERBEING
Heaven and earth and I are of the same root,
The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.- Sengchao

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We

are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in
a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
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affects all indirectly.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is
about everything!- Shunryu Suzuki
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence
and are nothing in themselves- Nagarjuna
Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation
to everything else.- Buddha
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.Thch Nhat Hanh

Heaven & earth & I are of the same root. Ten thousand
things & I are of one substance.- Sng-chao

AWAKENING AND EVERYDAY LIFE

If we dont occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful
mind will have nowhere to abide.- Shen-hui

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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free:
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is
the ultimate.- Chuang

The Buddha talked about saving all beings from delusion,

not converting them to a new religion.- Buddhism Now

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with
the infinite. Let all things take their course.- Chuang Tzu

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life
after that you cannot be deceived.- Zen Proverb
People sleep, and when they die they wake.- Muhammad
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose
to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying
every step.- Thich Nhat Hanh
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage;
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Zen Proverb
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths
beyond itself.- Anais Nin

Each step along the Buddhas path to happiness requires

practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily
life.- Henepola Gunaratana

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True

power is within & available to you now.- Eckhart Tolle

Body and mind dropped off.- Dogen describing

enlightenment

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is

what you already are.- Ramesh Balsekar
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When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.Byron Katie

The way out of life & death is not some special technique;
essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life & death.Bukko

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a

benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.Jack Kornfield

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a

miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on
water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are
engaged in a miracle which we dont even recognize: a blue
sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a
child our own two eyes. All is a miracle.- Thch Nhat
Hanh
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this,

walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.Bodhidharma
Its not about approving or liking, but just being able to
allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating,
or judging it.- Buddhism Now
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be
extremely hard and strong.- Zen Proverb
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you
can wake up right this moment.- Osho
To understand everything is to forgive everythingGautama Siddhartha
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated,
certified, recognized, congratulated, is false, or at least
incomplete.- R.H. Blyth
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master,
walk with the master, see through the master, become the
master.- Zen Proverb

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Learning Zen is
a phenomenon of
gold & dung.
Before you learn
it, its like gold;
after you learn it,
its like dung.Zen Proverb

REALITY AND
THE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the
same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean
is doing.- Alan Watts

At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the
infinite in all things.- Chuang Tzu
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.- Zen Proverb

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a

field. Ill meet you there.- Rumi

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and

everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.Lao Tzu

Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.Seng-tsan

Any experience of reality is indescribable!- R. D. Laing

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no

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intention; let it settle itself.- Tilopa

Youre never given more pain than you can handle. You
never, ever get more than you can take.- Byron Katie
In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse;
the flowering branches are; some long, some short.- Eicho
There is no mistake in nature.- Byron Katie
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating
geese.- Zen Proverb
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy
and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.- Eckhart Tolle
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color
& fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the
world.- Buddha

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe.

Zazen is not the life of an individual, its the universe thats
breathing.- Dogen
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one
dewdrop on the grass.- Dogen

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.Lao Tzu

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never

wake up now try to imagine what it was like to wake up
having never gone to sleep.- Alan Watts
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking
at and exploring itself.- Alan Watts
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at
night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong
stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.Alan Watts
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through
our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are
the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious
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of its glory, of its magnificence.- Alan Watts

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my
tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that
this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity
itself transcending time and space?- D.T. Suzuki

IMPERMANENCE
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the
world.- Dogen

TRUE SELF AND NO-SELF

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting
with something.- Koun Yamada

The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits.

Distinguish these without falling into names and
classifications.- Hongzhi1
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To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to

forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all
things.- Dogen

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful

medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances
in check.- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
I dont let go of concepts I meet them with understanding.
Then they let go of me.- Byron Katie
The Zen expression Kill the Buddha! means to kill any
concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
Peter Matthiessen
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, dont fall into the
error of thinking theres more than one Buddha.- Zen
Graffiti
Have good trust in yourself not in the One that you think
you should be, but in the One that you are.- Maezumi Roshi

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DIRECT EXPERIENCE
Zen has no business with ideas.- D.T. Suzuki

What is important is not the right doctrine but the

attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in
belief.- Alan Keightley

The menu is not the meal.- Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own

teeth.- Alan Watts
My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the
moon. You dont have to become my finger, nor do you have
to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look
at where it is pointing.- Osho
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a
painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.- Suzuki
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Roshi

THE WAY AND NON-STRIVING

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?- 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 isnt as serious as the mind makes it out to be.- Eckhart

Tolle

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods

made for fun.- Alan Watts
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.- Alan

Watts

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.- Atisha

When I feel like dancing, I dance. I dont care if anyone else

is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.Rachel Danson
Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on
preventing you.- Osho
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a
place of no-mind, from inner stillness.- Eckhart Tolle
I have lived with several Zen masters all of them cats.Eckhart Tolle
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of
unhappiness.- Eric Hoffer
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of
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suffering.- Ram Dass

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to
abandon our views about them.- Thch Nhat Hanh
A follower of the way has neither form nor shape, neither
root nor trunk; nor dwelling place; like a fish leaping in the
water.- Rinzai Zen proverb

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you dont know
already. All I can do is remind you of what you have
forgotten.- Eckhart Tolle

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JADE SMALL
Staff Writer and Social Media Manager for The
Open Mind. I am a seeker of knowledge, striving
to expand and help others on their quests!
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