Zen Book of Life by Mark Zocchi

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Although I try to hold the single thought of Buddha's teaching in my heart, I cannot help but hear the many crickets' voices calling as well.

ISUMI SHIKIBU

When my house burned down I gained an unobstructed view of the moonlight sky

ZEN WISDOM

Out of clutter,

find simplicity.

From discord,

find harmony.

In the middle of difficulty

lies opportunity.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Sit quietly doing nothing,

Spring comes,

And the grass grows

By itself.

ZEN WISDOM (SAYING)

There is no place in Buddhism for using effort.

Just be ordinary and nothing special.

Relieve your bowels, pass water,

Put your clothes on

and eat your food.

Ignorant people will laugh at me,

But wise will understand.

LIN-CHI

Do not seek the truth.

Only cease to cherish options.

ZEN SAYING

Everything that begins also ends.

Make peace with that and all will be well.

THE BUDDHA

Ask not what tomorrow may bring

But count as blessing

Every day that fate allows you.

HORACE

Do not dwell in the past

Do not dream of the future.

Concentrate the mind

On the present moment.

THE BUDDHA

Your worst enemy cannot harm you

As much as your own thoughts,

unguarded.

But once mastered,

No one can help you as much.

THE DHAMMAPADA

The universe always strikes you at your weakest point

Because that's what needs most strengthening

CHRIS PRENTISS

Better than a thousand careless words

is one single word that gives peace.

Better than a hundred years lived heedlessness,

Without contemplation,

Is one single day lived in wisdom

and deep contemplation.

Better than a hundred years lived in confusion,

Is a single day lived with courage and wise intention.

THE DHAMMAPADA

There are no ordinary moments.

DAN MILLMAN

Death is extraordinary like life, when we know how to live. You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute.

--Krishnamurti

The foolish reject what they see; the wise reject what they think.

--Zen saying

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

LAO TZU

All beings are on the path,

all victims of the same existence.

No one is better than the next person.

DENG MING-DAO

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

FROM THE TAO TE CHING

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless.

CHUANG TZU

When I let go of what I am,

I become what I might be.

LAO TZU

Changelessness is death.

CHINESE PROVERB

He who knows he has enough is rich.

TAO TE CHING

Silence is a source of great strength.

LAO TZU

When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.

ZEN PROVERB

A flower falls even though we love it and a weed grows even though we do not love it.

DOGEN ZENJI

When is the path?

The Zen Master Nan-sen was asked.

Everyday life is the path,

he answered.

MASTER NAN-SEN

It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes,

but an even wiser man to learn from others.

ZEN PROVERB

Anything on the path can be used for realisation.

LO JONG TEACHINGS (TIBETAN TERM)

If you can rid your self of conceptual thought, you will have accomplished everything.

HUANG PO

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

CONFUCIUS

Do not seek the truth; stop having an opinion.

SENG-T'SAN

As we do consistent, patient zazen we begin to know that we are nothing but attachments; they rule our lives. But we never lose an attachment by saying it has to go. Only as we gain true awareness of its true nature does it quietly and imperceptibly wither away; like a sandcastle with waves rolling over, it just smoothes out and finally Where is it? What was it?

--Charlotte Joko Beck

If you cant find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

-- Zen Master Dogen

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual every day life.

-- Shrunryu Suzuki

We are not in chaos, we are the chaos.

-- MZ

All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence.

-- The Buddha's last words.

He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other--take it that such a one has attained perfection.

-- Bhagavad Gita

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

-- Lao Tzu