100 Zen Phrases for Meditation and Buddhism

I leave you 100 Zen and Buddhist phrases To meditate and increase your concentration of great authors like Rumi, Osho, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Dalai Lama, Lao Tzu, Shunryu Suzuki and many more.

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1-It is simply sitting silently, watching the thoughts passing through you. Simply observing, not interfering, not judging, because the moment you judge, you have lost the pure observation. The moment you say"this is good, this is bad", you have jumped in the thought process.-Osho.

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2-In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do and that light becomes this art.- Rumi .

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3-Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.-Jim Butcher.

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4-Walk as if you were kissing the earth with your feet.-Thích Nhất Hạnh.

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5-It is easy to believe that we are waves and forget that we are also the ocean.-Jon J. Muth.

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6-That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you do, do not let the past get in the way, do not let the future bother you. Because the past no longer exists, and the future has not yet come. To live in memory, to live in the imagination is to live in non-existence.-Osho.

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7-You should learn to let go before learning to receive. Life should be touched, not strangled.-Ray Bradbury.

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8-When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.-Kamal Ravikant.

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9-Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. It remains motionless until the correct action arises on its own.-Lao Tzu.

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10-Zen is the release of time. So that when we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without a concrete reality.-Alan Wilson Watts.

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11-In fact, the truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means living, moving, acting, not simply reflecting.-D.T. Suzuki.

12-To deny the reality of things is to lose their reality; To affirm the emptiness of things is to lose its reality. The more you talk and think about it, the more you walk away from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there will be nothing that you will not be able to know.-Sengcan, Hsin Hsin Ming.

13-Peace comes from within. Do not look for it outside. Buddha .

14-Courage is often associated with aggression, but it should be seen as a will to act from the heart.-Donna Quesada.

15-Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods did for fun.-Alan Wilson Watts.

16-The true source of happiness is within each of us.-Chris Prentiss.

17-What you allow to enter the circle of your life, will make the difference in the quality of your life.-Chris Prentiss.

18-What determines the state of happiness or unhappiness of each person is not the event itself, but what the event means for that person.-Chris Prentiss.

19-The vessel is neither half full nor half empty. The glass is simply a glass and its content is perpetually changing with your perception.-Jennifer Sodini.

20-Worried about a single leaf you will not see the tree.-Vagabond.

21-Only the erasing hand can write the true.-Meister Eckhart.

22-Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.-Dalai Lama.

23-Just like parents take care of their children, you should take into account the whole universe.-Zen Master Dogen.

24-What we can change are our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.-Donna Quesada.

25-Three things can not remain hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.-Buddha.

26-Those who are free from resentment will find peace secure.-Buddha.

27-In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.-Shunryu Suzuki.

"If you can not find the right truth where you are, where do you expect to find it?"

29-We are formed by our thoughts; We become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows it like a shadow that never goes away.-Buddha.

30-You are not your thoughts. This simple statement can make a great change in your quality of life.-Dawn Gluskin.

31-One thing: you have to walk and create the road by walking; You will not find a path already made. It is not cheap to achieve the greatest realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking alone; The road is not already done waiting for you. It is just like the sky: birds fly but leave no footprints. You can not follow them; No traces behind. Osho.

32-The things I charge are my thoughts. They are my only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or heavy and overwhelmed.-Kamal Ravikant.

33-The object of your desire is not an object.-Jack Gardner.

34-Escaping the world means that one's world is not concerned with the opinions of the world.-Dogen.

35-Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.-Chris Prentiss.

36-You can not travel the road until you become the path in itself.-Buddha.

37-Do not think about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walk, sit or lie down, all you do is Zen.

38-Problems that remain persistently unresolved, should be taken as questioned questions incorrectly.-Alan Wilson Watts.

39-How people treat you is their karma; How you react is yours. - Wayne Dyer.

40-If you can bring your conscience, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any religion, life becomes in itself in the religion.-Osho.

41-All that we are is the result of what we have thought.-Buddha.

42-The answer is never"out there." All the answers are"in there,"inside you, wanting to be discovered.-Chris Prentiss.

43-The power of the mind is unconquerable.-Seneca.

44. Every human being is the author of his own health or illness.-Buddha.

45-The presence is when you no longer wait for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be fuller than this.-Eckhart Tolle.

46-The more you know, the less you need.-Yvon Chouinard.

47-I have lived with many Zen masters, many of them cats. -Eckhart Tolle.

48-The meaning of the spiritual life is to realize the truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or the truth, if you measure it with your own criteria.-Dainin Katagiri.

49-We should live each day as people who have just been rescued from the moon.-Thích Nhất Hạnh.

50-If you want to learn, teach. If you need inspiration, inspire others. If you are sad, encourage someone.-Leo Babauta.

51-You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and get rid of obstacles to be able to fly.-Chris Prentiss.

The best trick of the mind is the illusion that it exists.-Marty Rubin.

53-Stress is an ignorant state. With him you think everything is an emergency. Nothing is so important.-Natalie Goldberg.

54-The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may seem paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are able to love, to share, to go to the deepest center of another person, without owning the other, without being dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing And without becoming addicted to the other.-Osho.

56-I discovered that those who rarely dwell on their emotions, know better than anyone what an emotion is.-John Cage.

57-Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God as one peels potatoes. Zen spirituality is simply peeling potatoes.-Alan Watts.

58-Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our problems.-Charlie Chaplin.

"If you're worried about what it might be, and you wonder what it might have been, you'll ignore what it is.""Unknown.

60-Being happy does not mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.-Unknown.

61-This is the true secret of life - Be fully committed to what you do in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it's a game.-Alan Watts.

62-Guilt, repentance, resentment, sadness and any form contrary to forgiveness, is caused by an excess of past and a lack of present.-Eckhart Tolle.

61-Nothing completely exists alone, everything is related to everything else.-Buddha.

62-Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.-Alan Watts.

63-Only when you are extremely flexible and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.-Buddhist Proverb.

64-Follow the path, see the teacher, follow the teacher, walk with the teacher, see through the teacher, be the teacher.-Buddhist Proverb.

65-Just as a bee collecting nectar does not harm or disturb the color or fragrance of a flower, so is the wise movement of the world.-Buddha.

66-Things are as they are. Seeing the universe at night, we do not make comparisons on wrong or right stars, nor between constellations well or poorly armed."Watts Wings.

67-Finding happiness is one of the main sources of unhappiness.-Eric Hoffer.

68-Before giving, the mind of who gives is happy. While giving, the mind of the one who gives is at peace. After giving, the mind of the one who gives is high.-Buddha.

"He who does not break out against someone who is upset wins a difficult battle to win. Buddha.

70-In every moment, my mind is absolutely complete. I myself, right now, settled here, at this moment, I feel absolutely fulfilled, I need nothing. To be incomplete, first my mind must leave the reality of present mindfulness and go to illusions of thoughts of the future, think about thoughts that will tell me what I need in the present reality, about what I need to get, and then live a life that Pursue that illusion, getting it, suffering to get what my imagination wants, not what I wanted.-Swami Sukhbodhananda.

"Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, the ten thousand things and I are of one substance. -Shock

72. You will find the way in real whispers that you experience in your own daily life. And by following that path, you will find greater peace and joy throughout each day.

Emptiness is that which is right between this and that. The vacuum is all inclusive, there is no opposite, there is nothing to exclude or oppose. It is to live empty because all forms come out of it and who realize the emptiness is full of life and power and the love of all human beings.

Zen is trying to point out the universal everyday wisdom around you, to make you experience things purely"as they are", not to convince you in any specific way of thinking or stamping a specific label on something.

75. The only real thing about your trip is the step you're taking right now. That's all there is. -Eckhart Tolle

"Wherever you are, it's there altogether. -Eckhart Tolle

77- I am here to tell you that the road to peace is right there, when you want to escape. -Pod Chödrön

78. When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. -Eckhart Tolle

79- If you miss the present moment, you are missing your date with life. That is very serious! -Thich Nhat Hanh

80- The practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed here and now. -Maezumi Roshi

81- If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you with a need. - B.D. Schiers

82- My experience is that the teachers we most need are the people we are living with now. -Byron Katie

83. Throughout this life, you can never be sure enough that you will live to take another breath. -Huang Po

Consciousness is the greatest agent for change. -Eckhart Tolle

When you do something, you must burn completely, like a bonfire, without leaving a trace of yourself. -Shunryu Suzuki

86- The art of living... is neither to go carelessly drifting on one side nor clinging fearfully to the past for the other. It consists in being sensitive to every moment, to consider it totally new and unique, having an open mind and totally receptive. -Alan Watts

87. The intuitive recognition of the instant, of the reality... is the highest act of wisdom. - D.T. Suzuki

88. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it were the axis on which the earth of the world revolves, slowly and evenly, without hurrying into the future. -Thich Nhat Hanh

Preparing the food is not just about you and the others. It's about everything! -Shunryu Suzuki

90. Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. -Nagarjuna

It really comes down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all trapped in an ineluctable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. What affects one directly affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King son.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separation. -Thích Nhat Hanh

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. -Dogen

The practice of Zen is to forget the self in the act of uniting with something. -Koun Yamada

95- I do not put aside the concepts, I found them with understanding. Then they let me go. - Byron Katie

96. The Zen expression"Kill the Buddha!"​​It means to kill any concept of Buddha as something other than oneself. -Peter Matthiessen

97. When you hear that all beings are Buddha, do not fall into the error of thinking that there is more than one Buddha. -Graffiti Zen

The self is divided into ten thousand million different luminous spirits. Distinguishments without falling into names or classifications. -Hongzhi

99- To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to awaken for all things. -Dogen

100 Melting our attachment to oneself is the most powerful medication to put the mental and emotional imbalances in play - Dizigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.


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