Standing in front of the smile
on the face of a boiled pig's head
- you be as generous !

- Ko Un

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The powerful are ever more lonely.

- Swami Vrhka Baba

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All the time I am praying to the Buddha
I keep on killing mosquitoes.

- Issa

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Insects on a bough
Floating downriver,
Still singing.

- Issa

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Zen:
Seeing into one's own nature.

- Hui-neng

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We are here and it is now.
Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

- H. L. Mencken

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Being is what it is.

- J-P Sartre

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To see what is in front of one's nose needs constant struggle.

- George Orwell

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Break the legs of what I want to happen.
Humiliate my desire.
Eat me like chocolate.
It is spring and finally I have no will.

- Jalaluddin Rumi

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We fire clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside that holds what we want.

- Lao Tzu

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Those who think they're sane are merely arrogant.

- Swami Vrhka Baba

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Death is the sum of what it steals from us.

- from the film "Tous les Matins du Monde"

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It is there, right where you are;
If you seek it, obviously you do not see it.

- Muso Kokushi

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So little time - so little to do.

- Oscar Levant

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Calm in quietude is not real calm;
when you can be calm in the midst of activity,
this is the true state.
Happiness in comfort is not real happiness;
when you can be happy in the midst of hardship,
then you realise your true potential.

- Huanchu Daoren

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To ask the hard question is simple.

- W. H. Auden

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There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment;
There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

- Dogen

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If you really desire peace, be ready to sweat blood.

- Hakuin

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The human soul's as deep as emptiness.

- Swami Vrhka Baba

 

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ANONYMOUS ZEN SAYINGS

If you do not get it from yourself, Where will you go for it ?

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If you try to aim for it, you are turning away from it.

 

Zen

 

 

All teachings are likely to be false.

Zen