Zen Quote Thread

There is much hostility on this board. Attachment to the senses and the minds thoughts leads to suffering and anger.

I will be posting zen quotes in order that you may attain enlightenment.

FUCK YOU NIGGER

“Whatever depends on conditions
Is empty of inherent existence,
What excellent instruction could there be,
More amazing than these words?”
- Mr. T

Is it gay to watch a futa fuck a chick?

What sensei said this?

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

His name was Anonymous

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

A Zen master named Gisan asked a young student to bring him a pail of water to cool his bath.

The student brought the water and, after cooling the bath, threw on to the ground the little that was left over.

“You dunce!” the master scolded him. “Why didn’t you give the rest of the water to the plants? What right have you to waste even one drop of water in this temple?”

The young student attained Zen in that instant. He changed his name to Tekisui, which means a drop of water.