From the Shinjinmei: “The Way is not difficult; only there must be no wanting or not wanting.”
Tag Archives: Zen Buddhism
Quote of the day 04/28/25
From William Blake: “Man’s perceptions are not bound by Organs of Perception. He perceives more than Sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover. The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
Quote of the day 04/27/25
From Taliessin: “The wind without flesh, without bone, without veins, without feet, is strong; the wind has no wants, but the sea whitens when he comes out of nothing.”
Quote of the day 04/26/25
From William Blake: “One thought fills immensity.”
Quote of the day 04/25/25
From William Blake: “Everything possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”
Quote of the day 04/24/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The truth is like health or the air we breathe; we don’t realize it when we have it, it seems so common and tasteless.”
Quote of the day 04/23/25
From William Shakespeare: “At Christmas I no more desire a roseThan wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;But like of each thing that in season grows.”
Quote of the day 04/15/25
From Rikeiho: Desiring to possess the moon, A monk one ladled it out with the water into a vessel, But, reaching the temple with it, found That when he poured the water out, the moon was gone.
Quote of the day 04/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Flow like the river, be firm as the rocks, pliant as the willow, eternal as the sky, transitory as the dew-drops, for man is all these, and more.”
Quote of the day 04/13/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The attitude of Zen is, Follow the Self, and all these things, goodness, purity, compassion, will be added unto you. That is, do not attach yourself even to goodness, to ideals, to Zen itself.”
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