Zen Master Quotes, from Zen Essence, by Thomas Cleary
"If you can give up your former knowledge and understanding, thus making your heart open, not keeping anything at all on your mind, so you experience a clear empty solidity where speech and thought do not apply, you will directly merge with the fundamental source, sinking into the infinite, spontaneously attaining inherent wisdom that has no attainment."
Zen Master Yuanwu
“When you're settled...your mind is serene, unaffected by worldly distractions. You enter the realm of enlightenment, and transcend the ordinary world, leaving the world while in the midst of society.”
Zen Master Fenyang
“The Way does not need cultivation- just don't defile it. Zen does not need study- the important thing is stopping the mind. When the mind is stopped there is no rumination. Because it is not cultivated, you walk on the Way at every step. When there is no rumination, there is no world to transcend. Because it is not cultivated, there is no Way to seek.”
Zen Master Huanlong
“Once the ground of mind is clarified, there is no obstruction at all- you shed views and interpretations that are based on concepts such as victory and defeat, self and others, right and wrong.”
Zen Master Yuanwu
“You needn’t seek wonders, for wonders come of themselves.”
Zen Master Lingi
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