Zen Proverbs (31 Proverbs)
- If you want a certain thing, you must first be a certain person. Once you are that certain person, obtaining that certain thing will no longer be a concern of yours.
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- It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.
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- Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.
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- To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
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- To know and not do is not yet to know.
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- When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.
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- When you reach the top, keep climbing.
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- When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.
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- The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.
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- Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
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- Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
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- One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult."
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- No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
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- Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
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- Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
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- In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.
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- If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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- Chop wood, carry water.
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- Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.
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- From the withered tree, a flower blooms.
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- Better to struggle with a sick jackass than carry the wood by yourself.
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- Sit, walk, or run, but don't wobble.
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- Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.
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- The obstacle is the path.
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- Better to see the face than to hear the name.
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- The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
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- Before you study Zen, a bowl is a bowl and tea is tea. While you are studying Zen, a bowl is no longer a bowl and tea is no longer tea. After you've studied Zen, a bowl is again a bowl and tea is tea.
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- The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
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- Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
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- The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
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- A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.
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