Tag: Stones on the Path

The mountain flows, the river sits.
~ Zen saying

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace with words and ideas and abstractions–such as merit, such as past, present and future–our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.
~ Peter Matthiessen

Tozan asked Sozan: “Where are you going?”
“To an unchanging place,” Sozan said.
“If it’s unchanging, how could there be any going?” asked Tozan.
Sozan said: “Going, too, is unchanging.”
~ Zen mondo

The true path to liberation is to let go of everything, even the states and fruits of practice themselves, and to open to that which is beyond all identity.
~ Jack Kornfield

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein

The fundamental delusion of reality is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
~ Yasutani

Zen is not about nonmovement…. Sitting is a centered, strong position in the midst of movement. When you get a top spinning just right, even though it’s going very fast, it’s so stable that it doesn’t even look as if it’s moving. If it’s slightly off balance, it wobbles. It has to be centered and moving very fast in order to be stable. That’s what Zen is all about.
~ Bernie Glassman

My mind is my own church.
~ Thomas Paine

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
~ Turkish proverb

God whose love and joy are everywhere can’t come to visit unless you aren’t there.
~ Angelus Silesius