Zen Proverb

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

God is a loving god.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

God has no religion.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.