Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old zen quotes, zen sayings, and zen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is.Alan Watts
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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wuh-shih or 'no-fuss.'Alan Watts
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.Bodhidharma
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.Roshi Suzuki
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there Robert M. Pirsig
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I'd like to offer something to help you but in the Zen school, we don't have a single thing.Ikkyu
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Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it.Sheng Yen
Pure expression / Of the thing, the self / Being and letting be / All that is, that / Will be.Ian Zulick
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The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.Confucius
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Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. Rumi
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Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home. Zhuangzi
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.Rumi
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Not being tense but ready. / Not thinking but not dreaming. / Not being set but flexible. / Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. / It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.Bruce Lee
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.Jack Kerouac
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Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.Huang Po
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The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.Kamal Ravikant
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.Alan Watts
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Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.Vagabond
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We're lost where the mind can't find us utterly lost.Ikkyu