Classic Zen quotations

Time flies, and luck is fleeting. Get rid of the old and get new, and the new will return to the old. Unreal personnel, Xi is considerable? Drunk or awake, singing or crying. For example, wild horses shine and dust comes out. Like a dried-up fish, it will soon be. The following are 98 Zen sayings that I searched and sorted out. Welcome to read the reference.

1, the vast sea of people, no one has ever been lonely, spent a big time, accepted all the ups and downs of life, life is not to use those self-narrowness to dig out the pain of repeating life, but to refresh one's outlook on life again and again, to tolerate the gains and losses of life, to live a rare rationality in life, to face all the sharp troubles, and to learn to be calm and resolve the negative.

2. The mind is full of worldly distractions, and everyone has too many things to put down, so many people lose themselves and can't find the true meaning of life. In fact, the more I can't bear to watch what I like slip away from my hands, the more I can't really get it. Sometimes even if you try your best to get it, it's just a formality.

3, everyone's road, everyone walks, bumps and bumps are inevitable; There is nothing wrong with the love in the world and the knot in the world, and understanding can be inclusive; Tolerance brings peace; Watch it, you can put it down; See through, you can be indifferent.

4. The best way to let go is not to forget it deliberately, but to let the other person be safe. Then, please allow me to stay on the other side of time in this sunny morning, string my memories into wind chimes and miss you quietly. ...

5, people are alive, in fact, there are many things that can't be said, sometimes they go too far and often forget the cycle; Sometimes you see too clearly and often you can't see anything; Sometimes I think too much and often lose myself. Life is like a mirror, you have everything in your heart. If you have nothing in your heart, you will be quiet; If your heart is empty, you will realize. Learn to smile, learn to face, learn to let go, let everything follow your heart, follow your nature, and follow your fate.

6, rope sawing wood, dripping stones wear, learners must work hard; When water comes to nature, the melon is ripe, and the Tao is the secret. A real hero is someone who doesn't leak secrets in small places, cheat in the dark, and be careless in the end. _ _ _ _ Caigentan

7. The difference between youth and now is that sometimes I can't tell which drop is tears and which drop is sweat, because their temperature and salinity are as cold as fireworks.

8. Buddha said: All the evil things I did in the past were born of greed and ignorance without beginning or end. I am sorry for everything today.

9. Self-cultivation is a kind of beauty and virtue. Cultivation is the heart of wisdom and the lamp of thought. Cultivation is a warm cup of tea. Only by savoring it carefully can we appreciate its beauty. Self-cultivation is hidden beauty, noble and elegant, fresh and transparent. It is as pleasant as a foggy morning and as long as a quiet and comfortable night. If you appreciate it carefully, you will feel its richness and beauty.

10, there must be desire, if there are many knots, there must be desire, and if there is no desire, there will be no desire. Dalagni Sutra of the Great Wade, Volume 5.

1 1, becoming a Buddha is not becoming a Buddha, but being a human being.

12, everyone has a smile on his face, and this group is very peaceful. People can tolerate each other, understand each other and respect each other. In a collective, mutual gratitude, mutual tolerance and mutual achievement are very important.

13. In life, we are also looking for ways to get rid of it like this person. As we all know, no one has bound our hands and feet. What is really difficult to break through is the bottleneck in our hearts. Break through the bottleneck in your heart and remove the garbage in your heart, and you can fly freely in your own sky.

14, the truth is manna, and the lie is poison.

15, what's the difference between heart and mind? One is awareness and even self-consciousness, because of self-sufficiency and self-consciousness; The five roots of the two are separated, and the mind is consistent, named since the enlightenment. A good man, if he has two hearts, can achieve Bodhi. A good man, a saint and two hearts, what's the difference? One view is truth and reason, and the other view is all environmental wisdom. There are four kinds of good men, and their names are since the enlightenment. "Heart Sutra" Volume 8, issued bodhi heart products.

16, time is our greatest wealth. Should we cherish time and cherish every moment in our hands, so as to get a more meaningful and happier life? Don't think that the past has passed, the future will definitely come, and the present will never change. The only thing we can grasp is now. So don't worry about the past, don't worry about the future, live in the present, cherish the present, and grasp the present is the most important.

17, Master Hengwei talks about life and learns tolerance, which will make your life less troublesome; Learn to give, please make your life full of sunshine; In fact, the sky is blue, and the clouds will always disperse; In fact, the sea is not wide, and the other shore is also connected to this shore; In fact, the dream is very shallow and everything is natural; In fact, tears are sweet when your heart is willing. Live high's persistence, live high's simplicity, live high's infatuation and live high's beautiful dream.

18, it's easiest to cuff yourself. If you don't want to, others still have to struggle if they want to cuff themselves. While dreaming of freedom, we are constantly hoop ourselves, at the same time, we are reluctant to hoop others. How can I not be heavy or tired? In fact, no matter how many hoops you wear, as long as you don't take it to heart.

19. Looking back on the history that can be recorded in writing for thousands of years, human beings have experienced wars, poverty, plagues and countless natural disasters, but they are not as fearful as they are now. Most countries have rapid economic development, high material wealth and advanced science and technology.

20. Where will you go? Suffering is not what everyone wants, but a process that everyone must go through. Will you give up your life because of suffering? However, death is not a complete liberation from pain, because people also regard death as pain. Since you can't escape the hardships in any case, instead of complaining and wasting your life, it is better to cherish the present, reduce your troubles and live calmly.

2 1, countless people rise to the peak with the ups and downs of fate and the vagaries of life, and sometimes tumble in the abyss, but these are the necessary stages of life. Ups and downs, from beginning to end is the true face of life. Throughout the ages, most successful people have experienced the severe test of suffering and fate.

22. All truths are conceived in the most ordinary and ordinary life. As long as you experience them with your heart, you will certainly benefit a lot.

23. The Buddha went to the Snow Mountain. Who said that? Fight this heartless sword and cut the moss. Four phases are empty, and there is nothing in all aspects. Free from the inside and outside, life and death will rest here. Monks in the Virtual Cloud

24. The quality of life is a test of our character and cultivation. A poor man can learn to be pessimistic, world-weary, self-destructive, complaining, open-minded, transparent, inspirational and diligent. The rich can learn pride, arrogance, complacency and vulgarity here, but they can also learn gratitude, contentment, reward and happiness. The key is how we want to learn. No matter rich or poor, they can maintain a constant psychological state and greatly improve their academic qualifications.

25. Abbot, don't try to choose yet. The choice is extremely certain at home, and the safety is determined outside. However, the safety of amphetamines is in a day, and the danger is not a day's danger, but it is gradually accumulated and cannot be ignored. (Song) Fu Shanyuan's book "Harmony and Cleanliness".

26, if all the troubles are not firm, I say no offense.

27. I think learning more here can give priority to bliss and enhance taste. Such a person is worthy of joining the lotus, and I am trapped myself. At the age of 500, I don't see the buddhas. China's laws still don't work in the United States. Why should we move the mother-in-law's rules to Elysium?

28. If Pu holds precepts for all sentient beings, and the first meaning is empty, and holds precepts for all sentient beings without me, it is called net precept paramita.

29. If people develop bodhicitta, they will gather sadness, joy, kindness, abstinence, humiliation, diligence, Zen and wisdom among boundless monks. You should know that people are inseparable from life and death and do not turn to Bodhi.

30. In life, everyone can train themselves through simple exercises and concentrate on living in the present: First, take every step well and focus on every step. Second, stop and observe what is happening in your heart and around you. Third, transform past mistakes and transform anxiety and fear about the future.

3 1, Qin Ying's practice of breaking the precepts is to help criminals with great compassion and put bodhisattva in the net. Forty Hua Yan Volume 31

Only those who have sunshine in their hearts can feel the sunshine of reality. If they are always sad, how can life be beautiful? Life is always a mirror, which reflects our image. When we cry, life is crying, and when we smile, life is smiling.

33. [Daily Zen] Buddhism enters the heart, but it is "self-sufficient".

A harmonious life is the most beautiful and a stable society is the happiest.

35. Take all beings in the heart of Amitabha as an example and think of Amitabha in the heart of all beings. What about Amitabha in the hearts of all beings? It should not be the sentient beings in Amitabha's heart! Quoted from Zen master Wu Chu.

36. Human nature in the world is pure, and everything is self-nature. If you want to do all evil, do evil; If you think about all the good things, you will do good things. So everything is self-nature. If you cling to external things, false thoughts are like dark clouds, and your self can't be clear.

37. Our wisdom is as bright as the moon. If it is not covered by troubles like clouds, it will always be bright. Our luck is as perfect as the moon. If it is not destroyed by the selfishness of Luo Hou, it will always be so full. Let's pray for the moon. May we get rid of our worries and selfish thoughts and return to our bright and complete nature as soon as possible.

38. It is the sorrow of a society to sanctify morality. Morality should not be a scarce luxury, but a universal necessity. Morality comes from the consciousness of the soul, which in turn nourishes the soul. Morality is actually the food for the soul. If morality is sacred, it means that this society is sick, and the name of the disease is "soul hunger".

39. Keep a good mood, reflect the evening sunset from the desert with a column of solitary smoke, catch a bright moon, and set your mind free!

40, poverty is temporary, can stimulate love, is the eternal wealth.

4 1, if you can't get rid of the food you believe in, you'd rather cook it a hundred times a day than break the precepts and be trusted!

42. If you want to be loved, you must love first; If you expect to be cared for, you must care for others first; If you want others to be nice to you, you must be nice to others first. This is a secret recipe, which is guaranteed to be effective and applicable to any situation.

43. Society needs love, and everyone needs love; Love is the greatest happiness in life.

44. Life is impermanent. Physics is successful, alive, broken and empty; Birth, life, change and destruction of psychology; Physically, life and death. If we can thoroughly understand these truths, people will not care about them; I don't care about people's right or wrong. Naturally, I can concentrate on Tao, and I won't be tempted at will in real life!

45. The heart of great filial piety is the heart of great love.

46. There is a saying in Zen that "the water is in the hand". Although the moon is above the sky, if we open our wisdom and hold a handful of clear water, the beautiful face of the moon can appear in our palms. So is life. If you can work hard at the extreme of your life, you may see a brand-new scenery.

47. It is still unclear that the afterlife will continue; The fate of past lives is being realized in this life. I finally look forward to it, but I still can't grasp it well.

48. Because the six roots of ordinary people are not positive quantities, what we see, hear and know are not absolute truths. If we ordinary people's six roots are positive and everything we see, hear and know is true, then to whom does the Buddha's holy word work?

49. In the depths of time, I occasionally put down my hurried steps, let my heart empty, make room for my spirit and soul, and they will come later. Can't complain that the pace of spirit and soul is too slow, and it won't leave a solid footprint if it is fast. On the contrary, we should look at ourselves and see if there is not even a trace worth collecting because we are walking too fast behind us. Might as well wait, the fuel consumption is too high and the car damage is amazing. Should be overhauled or maintained once.

50. The habit of dependence is a stumbling block to your success. If you want to achieve great things, you must kick them away one by one.

5 1. Is it important to believe in Buddhism or causality? Personally, I think it's better not to believe in Buddhism, but not in cause and effect.

52. In this world, you can hear swearing words and see swearing events anytime and anywhere. The word "curse" has two mouths, and the ancestors used two mouths when creating words, which must have its purpose. Swearing is two mouths against each other, and the person who curses will get the response of the person who is scolded, in fact, it is to scold himself through others.

53. When making your own life goals, you should have a correct attitude, not only to pursue the enrichment and happiness of life, but also to get rid of vanity and vanity.

54. The truth in the world is that there are ten thousand people in life and ten thousand people are one. As long as we grasp the most essential thing, we can use it to observe everything, which is consistent; Observing thousands of phenomena, and finally seeing and sorting out messy things is nothing more than the most essential thing. It is effective to grasp the essence of eating and apply it to all levels of life.

55. "Legantan" said: "No shame, just look at the flowers in front of the court: it is unintentional to stay or stay, and it is easy to follow the clouds." Being an official can treat humiliation as common as flowers bloom and fall, and can be "not surprised"; It depends on whether the position will stay or not, and it is natural as a cloud, so that it can be "unintentional". "Looking around the courtyard" means "hiding in a small building, regardless of Xia Chunqiu in winter"; "drifting with the sky" shows a far-sighted and broad feeling, which is not as shallow as a villain; "Clouds rolling and clouds relaxing" implies the lofty realm of "a gentleman can bend and stretch". For things and things, for fame and fortune, you don't worry about losing, but you don't like it. The so-called "indifferent ambition, quiet and far-reaching."

56. You usually have to repair an umbrella by your own efforts, because no one will give you an umbrella. Self-discipline, self-discipline, it is better to ask yourself than to ask others.

57. I would rather live a hard and simple life than build my happiness on the suffering of others.

58. Love is sunshine, which makes the flower of the soul bloom; Love is rain and dew, which nourishes the soul of hatred; Love is a warm breeze that blows away the shadows in my heart. The world is interactive. How much love you give to the world, the world will give you back. When we accept love, we forget to give it to others.

59. How to cultivate virtue to help people without virtue? It's no use asking unscrupulous people to improve. They don't know what virtue is and the benefits of virtue, so they have no virtue. You might as well cultivate your own virtues and show them to others. People without virtue will look at you like this, maybe admire you from appreciation, imitate you from envy, and then become virtuous from virtue.

60. Take care of yesterday, today and tomorrow. When looking back on the past, don't hinder today's progress: only by living today and planning tomorrow can we take a good life path.

6 1, the heart meets fate, so all methods are asexual.

62. Getting married is actually similar to bargaining in the vegetable market. Everyone has their own bottom line. The same desire to make a deal, I will retreat a little if you enter a little.

63. The Buddha once said that "sweet words are good first" and "bad words are evil first". Don't speak ill of others, even your enemy, otherwise, even if you make him speechless and ashamed for a while, the words you scold him will eventually mature in yourself, just like the echo of an empty valley.

64. There is no end to Buddhism. Investigate its root cause, see nature clearly, and purify its meaning. Because the heart is the source of all laws, if everyone practices the heart, expands the heart, enlarges the heart, eliminates greed, anger and delusion, and the individual is the home and the country is the world, then the heart will be clean, the country will be clean and everyone will be at peace. The highest realm of Zen was once attributed by Dade to "seeing mountains or mountains and water or water", which is also the desire of people to return to nature and nature.

65. If others are strong, they should respond with softness; Others are cunning, and we should use wisdom to deal with them; If others doubt, we should deal with it calmly; Others are reckless and should be treated with caution. Others are competitive, and they have to be wronged; Others strive for profits, and they should be turned into indisputable; When others do good deeds, they should follow with joy; When others do evil, they should stop it with compassion. The enemy will block you, and the water can cover you. There is no disadvantage in the present situation.

66. Being a man: it is a gift to respect the superior and not be proud; Doing things: carelessness is wise; Right: get six points, only four points, which is righteousness; Method: keep yourself like a lotus, fragrant and clear, cheap; To people: be loyal to your appearance, sincerity and loyalty; Self-cultivation of mind: Excellence is gathering qi, and respecting heaven and loving others is benevolence.

67. Life is bound to encounter troubles, but not to struggle, but to find those positive and bright life forces, so that life is more sunny, not more bleak. Every life puzzle I have gone through is just thinking about how to open a new pattern, a new concept, or that I am born again.

68. In studying Buddhism, we often say, "I am slow to climb the mountain, but I can't get into the Dharma." . This is precisely when emphasizing communication with people, we must first learn to respect and be modest. However, it is not that simple to really do it, and it takes a long time to practice. Because there is no beginning, we are used to my slow tribute, so it is not easy to "get down" at once.

69. A thought of goodness makes everything good. Finding other people's faults first is my biggest fault. It is one of my great advantages to think of the advantages of others before thinking.

70. A cup of green tea is a period of time; One side of the country is the state of mind, looking at the nothingness of flowers in the fog through a curtain of smoke and rain.

7 1, the most worthwhile investment in life is to hone yourself. Living and working on your own, so you are the most precious wealth. Work itself cannot bring people a sense of economic security, but with good thinking, learning, creativity and adaptability, they can be in an invincible position; Having wealth does not mean having eternal economic security, but having the ability to create wealth is truly reliable.

72, understand, see through, see through. Human feelings need to be understood; You should see through the ups and downs of fame and fortune; See through the people who are born, sick and dead. The world is neither too big nor too small. If you look at it all, you will look down. Our whole lives are rented time. We should take this work seriously, but not too seriously. Many things can't be simple, just because they care too much.

73. Our heart is a small town. No clutter, no noise, only a mist, a breeze, and the innocence of childhood. We don't understand the world, not because of ignorance, but because it is not simple enough.

74. Letting go is a state of mind, a kind of wisdom, not an act.

75. They decided to exchange identities and were very happy at first.

76. The troubles in life are all found by yourself. An empty heart, such as an empty cup, can be leisurely. A person's mind, if it can be like a lotus, like the sun and the moon, detached from things, without distinction, without choice, without love and hate, without gain and loss, can be at ease and peaceful. Water flows downwards, clouds float to the sky, and everything happens naturally and harmoniously. This is the normal state of mind. Life is like running water, returning to nature, which is to realize life and Zen.

77. Going to the world makes things complicated. Worry and sorrow are like a chisel, which gouges out ruthless wrinkles on people's faces, not only making people's faces haggard, but also making people's minds aging. In fact, life is ordinary and small. We are like a grass in a bright spring day and a white cloud in an infinite blue sky. When you knock on the door of life with a positive attitude and smiling hands, you will be surrounded by happiness and joy; When you stare at the cloudy sky with pessimistic eyes and hide in the corner and soak the bleeding wound with sad tears, you are undoubtedly punishing yourself with pain relentlessly. If you put yourself in the right position, you can enjoy a happy time in ordinary days.

78. Diligence and happiness are the eternal themes of life pursuit, and everyone is eager to have more happiness. However, some people live very tired and unhappy. They often blame others, blame God for not caring for themselves, blame fate, complain about unsatisfactory career and family discord ... In fact, these are not decisive factors affecting happiness. What really determines whether you are happy or not is yourself-your own mind and your own open mind.

79. As long as you build your own heart reasonably, you can stay away from pain and get happiness.

80. It is equality of law, and there is no competition. This is aunt Dorothy's name, three advantages and three bodhis.

8 1. Life is hard, and you are willing to bear hardships and stand hard work. Life can be difficult, but you will never turn back because of cowardice. You need to face it and, of course, accept your mistakes. All goodwill in life is just a kind of self-awareness and how to improve it.

82. The fleeting years always give people helplessness and emotion; The colorful world always gives people nostalgia and bitterness; Shallow time always gives people persistence and strength. Life is like this, with twists and turns, helplessness and some beauty. There are dreams of flying in the ordinary, calm feelings in the trivial, and eternal happiness in the simple. Don't be hard on yourself, don't be hard on others, find a reason to rest when you are tired, and find a way to release when you are bored.

83. Death is not mysterious, nor is it as terrible as we think. Death is not the end of life at all, but the beginning of life, just a new body. It's like copying data from a hard disk and loading it on another hard disk. Of course, if you can't do it well in this life, there will be bad results in the afterlife. I have done too many bad things, and it is hard to say whether I can become a person in the afterlife.

84. The human body is like a small universe. Many other life forms live in every small part of the body. "You" are just the kings of these life forms, because you are rewarded with great rewards and control this body.

85. Learning Buddhism begins with wishing, shame and repentance. If you have a ashamed heart, you can motivate yourself to go up; Only with a repentant heart can we constantly renew ourselves.

86. Wave after wave, wave after wave, is the other side.

87. Buddha is the heart, and the heart is the Buddha. Buddha's heart is always an illusion. Knowing that there is no Buddha is unintentional. It really started like a Dharma Buddha.

88. Moment is eternity. There is no need for mountains and rivers to participate in Zen in the moonlight of the ancient temple, and the fire in the heart is also cold.

89. aspire to be like a mountain, and cultivate virtue like a deep sea.

90. Those subtle flowers that people can't tell apart are actually very different internally. What color flowers we want to plant is not how hard you water and fertilize later, but what kind of seeds you sow. Many things germinate like seeds, such as love and hate. When we sow, remember to think about its fruit.

9 1, I won't go to hell, whoever goes to hell, hell is not empty, I swear I won't become a Buddha!

92. Don't criticize others in front of a third party, let alone speak ill of others behind their backs. Smart people don't relax. They enrich themselves with wisdom through diligent study.

93. You will be born after joining the WTO.

94. The Buddha taught all sentient beings to stay away from sensual greed and all attractive things, and to practice with a clear heart in order to achieve silence and gain wisdom.

95. Life is short, so we should step up and make rapid progress. Don't hold us back. Don't touch the ground with your front foot, and your back foot won't move. Let bygones be bygones and focus on today.

96. Kagami Akira is very different from his image. His heart is clean and his head is fine.

97. When care meets indifference, love and painful love will coexist.

98, armor is too heavy, people naturally tired.