Mon, Jul 17, 2006
I started this page to collect entries on taoist / zen philosophy that I run across on the web. For more like this, join the deeshan meditation group on yahoo groups.
The Tao has no purpose,
And for this reason fulfills
All its purposes admirably. -Laotse
(source: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/philosophy/tao.html)
The mind of the Sage is like a mirror which reflects the entire universe. -Changutse
(source: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/philosophy/tao.html)
The true person is not anyone in particular; but like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world. -Dogen
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
The tao is silent. -Raymond M. Smullyan
"For twenty seven years
I've always sought the Way.
Well, this morning we passed
Like strangers on the road. - Kokuin (10th century)
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. -Eckhart Tolle
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. -Eckhart Tolle
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
As you awaken to your spirit, Creation unfolds itself to you, for your spirit is a perfect, divine expression of nature and its principles. -Summum
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
"Some mistakenly think that zen soars high above any need for compassion. Don't be one of them. Since I have compassion for you, I'll try to set you straight on this point right now! Open your minds." -Ji Aoi Isshi
(source: http://zenfilter.blogspot.com/)
Take things easily. Take it easy. And by taking things easy one can go beyond them more comfortably, conveniently, quickly, than by taking things seriously. If you take them seriously you become entangled with them, you become burdened with them. -Osho
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
Sitting quietly doing nothing,
Spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.
(source: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/philosophy/tao.html)
The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally. -Lynda Standley Richardson
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
"One of the ego's favorite beliefs is the expectation that any one person can be the single, ultimate source of our wants and needs. The practice of labelling relationships is an attempt to hold each other to this unfulfillable and unsustainable belief."
(source: http://www.jackzen.com/)
"In the early days of his illness when I spoke to Gregory Willms about dying, I said, 'How's it feel to be dying?' He said, 'Everybody's dying. I just know my schedule.' That's true. We all die. What we're haggling about is the timing and what we will give up. There's no need to wait to decide to give things up. No need to worry about the objects at all. Let's just give up our prejudices and our ideas right now. Give up that kind of clinging we have that closes the heart. If you look into your heart when you do zazen, you can see whether it's open or it's closed. If it's open, you'll be okay. If it's closed, it doesn't matter how clever you are, you won't be okay. There it is." -dharma talk, John Tarrant
(source: http://zenfilter.blogspot.com/)
If you know that you don't know, that is a great beginning. Then it is possible for you to know. -Socrates
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
The Tao has no purpose,
And for this reason fulfills
All its purposes admirably. -Laotse
(source: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/philosophy/tao.html)
The mind of the Sage is like a mirror which reflects the entire universe. -Changutse
(source: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/philosophy/tao.html)
The true person is not anyone in particular; but like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world. -Dogen
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
The tao is silent. -Raymond M. Smullyan
"For twenty seven years
I've always sought the Way.
Well, this morning we passed
Like strangers on the road. - Kokuin (10th century)
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. -Eckhart Tolle
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. -Eckhart Tolle
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
As you awaken to your spirit, Creation unfolds itself to you, for your spirit is a perfect, divine expression of nature and its principles. -Summum
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
"Some mistakenly think that zen soars high above any need for compassion. Don't be one of them. Since I have compassion for you, I'll try to set you straight on this point right now! Open your minds." -Ji Aoi Isshi
(source: http://zenfilter.blogspot.com/)
Take things easily. Take it easy. And by taking things easy one can go beyond them more comfortably, conveniently, quickly, than by taking things seriously. If you take them seriously you become entangled with them, you become burdened with them. -Osho
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
Sitting quietly doing nothing,
Spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.
(source: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam/philosophy/tao.html)
The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally. -Lynda Standley Richardson
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
"One of the ego's favorite beliefs is the expectation that any one person can be the single, ultimate source of our wants and needs. The practice of labelling relationships is an attempt to hold each other to this unfulfillable and unsustainable belief."
(source: http://www.jackzen.com/)
"In the early days of his illness when I spoke to Gregory Willms about dying, I said, 'How's it feel to be dying?' He said, 'Everybody's dying. I just know my schedule.' That's true. We all die. What we're haggling about is the timing and what we will give up. There's no need to wait to decide to give things up. No need to worry about the objects at all. Let's just give up our prejudices and our ideas right now. Give up that kind of clinging we have that closes the heart. If you look into your heart when you do zazen, you can see whether it's open or it's closed. If it's open, you'll be okay. If it's closed, it doesn't matter how clever you are, you won't be okay. There it is." -dharma talk, John Tarrant
(source: http://zenfilter.blogspot.com/)
If you know that you don't know, that is a great beginning. Then it is possible for you to know. -Socrates
(source: http://www.deeshan.com/)
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