Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

The Art of Peace begins with you.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

I'm actually very spiritual.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.