Zhuangzi Quotes

Enlightenment is lightening up.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the word 'wisdom' is not used in that way. Here wisdom means Light, illumining Light, transforming Light. That which illumines our unlit consciousness is wisdom. That which transforms the finite consciousness into the infinite Consciousness is called wisdom.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

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

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Quality is the Buddha.

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

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.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

The light of Asia