Birth: 1573 Death: 1645
One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another..
Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest..
When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing….
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the voice that says,….
The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two..
Sever the edge between before and after..
When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the begi….
When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort ….
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat ….
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with willpower to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will ….
One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressio….
It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless.
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child..