Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/31/2006

The living meaning of Zen is beyond all notions. To realize it in a phrase is completely contrary to the subtle essence; we cannot avoid using words as expedients, though, but this has limitations. Needless to say, of course, random talk is useless. Nonetheless, the matter is not one-sided, so we temporarily set forth a path in the way of teaching, to deal with people.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/30/2006

When you're deluded, every statement is an ulcer; when you're enlightened, every word is wisdom.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/29/2006

One single still light shines bright: if you intentionally pursue it, after all it's hard to see. Suddenly encountering it, people's hearts are opened up, and the great matter is clear and done. This is really living, without any fetters -- no amount of money could replace it. Even if a thousand sages should come, they would all appear in it's shadow.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/28/2006

Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/27/2006

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/26/2006

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/25/2006

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/24/2006

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/23/2006

"To understand everything is to forgive everything."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/22/2006

"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/21/2006

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/20/2006

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/19/2006

"Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/18/2006

A Zen master once said to me, "Do the opposite of whatever I tell you." So I didn't.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/17/2006

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

~Gotama Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/17/2006

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

~Gotama Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/16/2006

"The only people who believe that samsara and nirvana are the same are those that haven't meditated enough."

~Ajahn Chah

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/15/2006

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around chinatown."

~Woody Allen

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/14/2006

"When I first started reading about Buddhism, I said this emptyness is really heavy!"

~Rev Ryunyo King

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/13/2006

Buddhism cannot strictly be called a religion because it is neither a system of faith and worship, nor "the outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a God or gods having power over their own destiny to whom obedience, service, and honor are due.