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    Zen One Liners

    Those pithy remarks that really move us. Volumes of ideas expressed in only a few words. There's a lovely art to that, so figured it'd be cool to start a thread of handy Zen one liners. I'll kick it off with a classic and an original:

    "Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form."

    "Freedom comes not from independence, but interdependence."

    Gassho,
    John

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    Great idea, John!

    "If you want to know me,
    look inside your heart."

    - Lao-Tsu

    Gassho,

    Daitetsu
    no thing needs to be added

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    Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

    Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

    Gassho,

    Kirk
    流文

    I know nothing.

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    God is Love, Gaius.
    -- Angel Six, Battlestar Galactica

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    Zen One Liners

    Not one, not two.
    Last edited by Jishin; 09-15-2014 at 01:18 AM.

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    Bodhidharma replied, “Bring me your mind, and I will pacify it.”

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    Everything you meet is your life
    -- Taigu (quoting someone else? I don't know.)
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    If you want to know the undying person in the hut, don't separate from this skin bag here and now.
    -- Shitou
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
    -- Dogen
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
    -- Dogen
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    Vast emptiness, nothing holy.
    -- Bodhidharma
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    Attention. Attention. Attention.
    -- Ichu
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    No need to be defensive if there is no need to be defensive.

    -- Jishin


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    Nindo
    Guest
    Not always so.

    - Suzuki Roshi

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    Nindo
    Guest
    Doing what you're doing while you are doing it.

    - Daido Loori Roshi

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    None of that! --me
    求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
    I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.

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    Great lines everyone!

    "The Mind is Buddha, Buddha is the Mind."

    -Dharma of Mind Transmission by Huang-po
    Last edited by Nameless; 09-15-2014 at 02:09 AM.

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    It is like a finger pointing to the moon. <SMACK!> Don't concentrate on the finger or you'll miss all that heavenly glory!
    -Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon (was he quoting someone here?)

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    Not Zen, but apt:

    “Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...” (A.A. Milne)


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    Sleepy, dry mouth, paint on socks....... fizzy water aaahh,... Goodnight.


    Gassho D

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    "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."


    Gassho,
    Myosha
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Go sit.
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    Joyo
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    These are fantastic one-liners!!!

    (can that be my one-liner? )

    Gassho,
    Joyo

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    What did the monk say to the hot dog vendor? "make me one with everything."

    gassho,
    Juki
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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    It doesn't take much to survive, even less to be at peace.

    Gassho, John

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    Joyo
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    Wiccan Rede--Do what you will, so long as it harms none

    "Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires." Lao-Tzu

    Gassho
    Joyo

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    Life has no meaning
    Except for love and compassion for others.

    Kind regards. /\
    _/_
    Rich
    MUHYO
    無 (MU, Emptiness) and 氷 (HYO, Ice) ... Emptiness Ice ...

    https://instagram.com/notmovingmind

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    Nindo
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    Nothing special.

    - Joko Beck

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    On Buddha nature: "The reason everything looks beautiful is because it's out of balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony."

    Also on thoughts and wide pastures: "The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous."

    - Shunryu "Mr. Awesome" Suzuki

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    No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place

    Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by it self
    .. because he constantly forgets him self,
    he is never forgotten ..

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    "If I was a sculptor, ha... but then again no." - Elton John

    Gassho, John

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    "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Shit happens. - unknown



    Gassho, Jishin

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    Is that so?

    -- Zen master Hakuim Ekaku

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    You know that lotus shaped throne, the one the buddha supposedly sat on? It's right there under your ass!

    -- Jeff Shore


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    "You must learn to let go of everything that you fear to lose." - Yoda

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    No, seriously. Go sit.
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    Zen One Liners

    A zen master's life is one continuos mistake

    Dogen

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    Mp
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    Life's a garden, dig it! =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Kantai
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    Don´t just do something,
    sit there!

    (who said that?)

    Gassho
    Kantai

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    It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

    Jon J. Muth

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    Sore feet, a ticking clock, crickets, cool air.

    Gassho
    Daizan
    Last edited by RichardH; 09-18-2014 at 03:58 AM. Reason: That's feet not feat. : )

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    When resting, I look at the mountain. When bussy, the mountain looks at me.

    Gassho


    Myoho
    Mu

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    Quote Originally Posted by Juki View Post
    What did the monk say to the hot dog vendor? "make me one with everything."

    gassho,
    Juki
    Juki,

    That monk gave the vendor 20 bucks, but when he got his hotdog, he got not change. He said to the vendor "What about my change?"; the vendor repiled:

    (*drumroll*) "Change only comes from within..."

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    Obladi oblada life goes on brah... the Beatles
    Gassho,
    Raffy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kantai View Post
    Don´t just do something,
    sit there!

    (who said that?)
    Hello,

    From the book? http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Just-Some.../dp/0060612525


    Gassho,
    Myosha
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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