Zen

Zen is the direct experince of what we might call ultimate reality, or the absolute, yet it is not separate from the ordinary, the relative. This direct experience is our birthright. The practice of zazen – meditation – is a way of realizing the non-dualistic, vibrant, subtle, and internconnected nature of all life. - Unknown

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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. - Alan Watts

Desires and expectations are the sources of disappointment. Don’t cling to them. Do your work, walk your way. - Zen saying

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. - Shunryu Suzuki

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. - John J Muth

What was never lost can never be found. - Zen Saying

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. - Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. - Robert M. Pirsig

The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp. - Zen Proverb

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