Zen Quotes Zen Sayings

• When you observe your delusions, you will know that they are baseless and not dependable. In this way you can cut confusion and doubt. This is what i call wisdom. - Bodhidharma
   
• Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen;
  Talking or silent, moving unmoving,-
  The essence is at ease. - Yoka
   
• When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. - Osho
   
• You don't throw off your burdens even when you go to bed; you are busy with illusions. - Yakusan
   
• Mind is like the wood or stone from which a person carves an image. If he carves a dragon or a tiger, and seeing it fears it, he is like a stupid person creating a picture of hell and then afraid to face it. If he does not fear it, then his unnecessary thoughts will vanish. Part of the mind produces sight, sound, taste, odor and sensibility, and from them raises greed, anger and ignorance with al] their accompanying likes and dislikes.
  -  Bodhidharma
   
• Stop talking and thinking,
  And there is nothing
  You will not be able to know. - Sosan
   
• since the journey of life
  is little but grief and pain,
  why should we be so reluctant
  to return to the sky of our native place? - Ikkyu
   
• Confused by thoughts,
  we experience duality in life.
  Unencumbered by ideas,
  the enlightened see the one Reality. - Hui Neng