Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, … - Taisen Deshimaru
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, …
- Taisen Deshimaru
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imaginati… - Taisen Deshimaru
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imaginati…
Think with your whole body. - Taisen Deshimaru
Think with your whole body.
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order. - Taisen Deshimaru
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant. - Taisen Deshimaru
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. - Taisen Deshimaru
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. - Taisen Deshimaru
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. - Taisen Deshimaru
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. - Taisen Deshimaru
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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