Zen Buddhist Quotes

• Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Buddhist, Morning

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

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• Hay tres cosas que no pueden ocultarse durante mucho tiempo: el sol, la luna y la verdad.

  Confucius

  Motivacional, Sabiduría, Budista

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• Toda la luna y todo el cielo se reflejan en una gota de rocío sobre la hierba.

  Dogen

  Luna, Cielo, Relajación

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• En lo que crees te conviertes.

  Buda Gautama

  Inspiración, Motivación, Positivo

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• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Kindness, Freedom

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Todo lo que somos es el resultado de lo que hemos pensado; en lo que pensamos nos convertimos.

  Buda Gautama

  Karma, Budista, Actitud

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  Si quieres que los demás sean felices, practica la compasión. Si quieres ser feliz, practica la compasión.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiración, Felicidad, Feliz

  Dalai Lama Victor Chan (2012). "La sabiduría de la compasión: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights", p.11, Random House.

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• No te quedes en el pasado, no sueñes con el futuro, concentra la mente en el momento presente.

  Buda Gautama

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• Concentra la mente en el momento presente.

  Buda Gautama

  Vida, Budismo

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• Sentado tranquilamente, sin hacer nada, llega la primavera y la hierba crece sola.

  Matsuo Basho

  Inspirational, Positive, Spring

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  El amor y la compasión son necesidades, no lujos. Sin ellos, la humanidad no puede sobrevivir.

  Dalai Lama

  Amor, Inspiración, Vida

  "Una pequeña gota de tinta: Una colección de citas inspiradoras y conmovedoras de todos los tiempos". Libro de Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

  Sengcan

  Wisdom, Mind, Disease

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• The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

  Atisa

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Effort

  "Perspectivas sobre la búsqueda de sentido de la humanidad". Libro de Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• El viaje de mil millas comienza con un solo paso. Cuidado con el escalón.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Buddhist, Believe, Air

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• Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Forgotten, Zen Life

  "Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries".

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• Before I had studied Zen for thirty years,
  I saw mountains as mountains,
  and waters as waters.
  When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains,
  and waters are not waters.
  But now that I have got its very substance
  I am at rest.
  For it's just that
  I see mountains once again as mountains,
  and waters once again as waters.

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Knowledge, Years, Water

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• According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhist, Views, Mind

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• And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

  Howard Fast

  Buddhist, Catholic, Promise

  Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

  Eric Maisel

  Buddhist, Teaching, Heart

  Eric Maisel (2010). “Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach”, p.26, New World Library

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• You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

  Nikki Sixx

  Buddhist, Silence, Ironic

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• If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teeth. It's not realistic to believe that you will live your promises as a daily practice -- unless you're a saint or a highly evolved Zen Buddhist. Not where marriage is concerned. But you can make a practice of returning to your vows when the going gets rough.

  Harriet Lerner

  Buddhist, Morning, Believe

  "Returning To Your Wedding Vows" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Buddhist, Book

  Ray Bradbury (2012). "Fahrenheit 451: A Novel", p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

  M. Scott Peck

  Religious, Buddhist, Home

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• With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.

  John Ankerberg

  Religious, Buddhist, Atheist

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