Classic Zen quotations

People should not regret, miss or even find what they have lost. Please don't do this. Let the "past" stay in the depths of memory as a beautiful memory! The following are 80 Zen sayings that I have carefully arranged. Come and have a look.

1, the flowers are nameless, and the Jedi scenery can also bloom; Grass is humble, but it can also be covered with rich green. Get calm, lose indifference, let nature take its course and strive for its inevitability. Time is leisurely, and the years are old. Life, just let nature take its course, feel at ease and be happy naturally. In this world, you need to constantly dust yourself off, introspect yourself, since the enlightenment yourself and respect yourself.

2. I have experienced the joys and sorrows of life, seen the glitz of the world like a dream, and know that the glory in my heart will eventually be dull, all the prosperity will eventually turn into clouds, my heart will walk in peace, and I will experience the ultimate beauty of life in silence and leisure.

To be a good person is to have correct life goals and ideals and great will. The motivation and value of life are born from this.

4. Only with independent thoughts can you have an independent personality. Respect for morality, reverence for heaven and earth, and compassion for all beings are the sources of independent thought.

5, cook a pot of cloud water Zen, taste a glass of water.

6. Q: "If everyone leaves the wicked, who does the wicked expect to save him from returning to the right path?" A: "Bodhisattva is not a bodhisattva. In terms of knowing what is right and not knowing what is right, the bodhisattva is merciful and compassionate, and one is not far from the wicked. Those who know what is right and see what is right are not transformed by the wicked, nor are they separated from each other, which is useless and harmful. " If you are not a bodhisattva and have no right knowledge, how can you approach the wicked? "-Qian Bing South Theater

7. Sometimes, shut up, put down your pride and admit that you are wrong, not giving up, but growing up. In silence, be an idle flower, get along with people, read quiet and peaceful books and listen to songs that go straight to your heart. I don't care whether it's right or wrong, and I don't say that when people take a sip of herbal tea, they meet and laugh. I can only be indifferent and walk in the world with the attitude of picking flowers. Occasionally touching the piano and touching the moon in the text, dripping Zen sounds, has nothing to do with romance, just to find a quiet, leaving a copy.

8. Persuade people not to tell lies. A lie is like a golden rope. Once it is tied, it will earn more and more. Tell a lie, even if you use a hundred lies, it won't work out. A liar's life is destined to be spent lying and lying. Lies are like balloons blown to the extreme, which explode at the touch of a button and are hard to protect with painstaking efforts. If a person lives a lie all his life, his life will always be in fear, and he will be frightened out of my wits at the slightest sign.

9. Maybe, just when I was about to forget the world, but I didn't want to forget it in my heart, you came to my city, just like the rhyme of a small poem, which inadvertently provoked my love. At this time, Leng Yue, accompanied by insomnia, touched the complex in a wisp of words, and a Zen tea was dull and fleeting. If you look back, the memory of cooking wine in childhood is destined to be a one-off event under the peach tree.

10, money is like fertilizer. It's no use piling it up. It must be unfolded to play a role.

1 1. Life will inevitably encounter setbacks. What is important is not to absolutely avoid setbacks, but to take a positive attitude in the face of setbacks. Facing difficulties bravely and not being afraid of setbacks is a positive attitude and a compulsory course in life.

12, knowing the origin and extinction with wisdom, the endless heart is endless, so you can get through all the hardships without obstacles. You should never think that meditation is just for mystery and silence. Only when the Bodhisattva shows the compassion of the masses can you prove the true wisdom of Zen.

13, 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.

14. In the realm of compassion, all life is connected by flesh and blood, and the value of self-life only exists in selfless dedication to others and groups.

15, time is fast and luck is passing. 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.

16, a healthy person is not born with illness or medicine. There is no doubt that there is no need for an answer. Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to be healthy and have no doubts about your heart, work hard!

17, the Buddha told us that a series of sufferings and endless pains in reincarnation all started from ignorance and were caused by ignorance. As King J III of Dabao said in The Handprint of Righteousness: "From ignorance to confusion, from ignorance to consciousness, from two to the whole, I hope to break the root of ignorance and confusion."

18, there are three kinds of people in the world: the first kind can only recall the past and experience sadness in the process of recalling; The second kind of people only dream about the future and do nothing in the process of dreaming; There is only the third kind of person who combines reality and ideal perfectly, is far-sighted and down-to-earth.

19, no matter good or evil, good or bad, right or wrong, nothing in the world is unacceptable and inclusive.

20. If people go with the flow, they will die of thirst for fear of drowning. If they don't practice in law, they will smell more. If people prepare meals, don't eat when they are hungry, and don't practice dharma, wouldn't they smell more? If people are good at prescriptions, they can't save themselves from diseases, and it's the same if they don't practice dharma and listen more. If the number of people is valuable, you won't have half the money, so if you don't practice law, so will you if you listen more. If you are deaf and play music, you won't hear it yourself. If you don't practice dharma, you will hear more. If you talk about all the beauty of the four roads, there is no real virtue in them, and the same is true if you can't do it

2 1, there is an inseparable relationship between people. The communication between people is, in the final analysis, the communication between hearts. No matter what you say or do, there are inevitably some inner demands, some opinions, some emotions and some emotions. Assuming that there are no three poisons in your heart, you will naturally not poison others. The poison in the heart will naturally spread out and flow into each other's hearts, causing poison to each other and creating a criminal career for themselves. The greater the toxicity, the heavier the criminal career.

22. If you work hard, you will have happy results.

23. 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.

24. Qin Ying's breaking the precept is to help criminals with great compassion and put Bodhisattva in the net. Forty Hua Yan Volume 31

25. The Buddha's 84,000 Dharma aims to accommodate 84,000 kinds of troubles of all beings. In the final analysis, all our efforts and efforts for spiritual practice are aimed at calming the white heart. Even if we practice for a long time, our Buddhism attainments are deep and our status is high, if our hearts are not subdued at all, then we are Buddhists in name only, not in name.

26. Unless the sea dries up and the rocks rot, the sea will become a mulberry field. So I asked the Buddha to turn me into a swallow in the afterlife, and after all the hardships, I reclaimed the sea for your fate in this life. So the Buddha arranged to meet you in this life, and let me be the unfinished frontier with you. When fate is over, the song is over.

27. The needle of Yunzhou asked by the Zen master refers to a thorough understanding of life. Without needles, you can only wear loose clothes. By the same token, without a thorough understanding of life, you can only live a miserable life. Once a person has a correct attitude towards life, he can find pleasure and poetry from ordinary life.

28. When you see a happy person, you must be willing to be with all beings, entertain yourself with the law, and be reluctant to give up. ..... When you meet a happy person, you should wish all living beings happiness and provide happiness for the Buddha. Hua Yan Jing (Volume 14) is a pure product.

29. Once a person enters a state of concentration, the whole brain will revolve around an exciting point, and all interference will be automatically eliminated. Everything will be forgotten except his favorite occupation. Zen practice also advocates this kind of meditation kung fu that is not disturbed by external things and focuses on the heart.

30. Everyone is the best. The difference lies in how to discover and reuse yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you will ignore yourself and delay yourself. Self-confidence is the driving force of life. We should believe in ourselves and be a pearl, not dung.

3 1. It may be that small mushrooms with a life span of less than one month don't understand how long a month is. Cicadas born in summer and dead in autumn don't know that there are spring and winter in a year. And those who feel that they have lived for a lifetime even if they only live for a few seconds really live the taste of life, because they have embarked on a unique life path of their own.

32. Nowadays, walking on the streets of cities, some retro elements gradually attract people's attention, and a trace of nostalgia arises. Maybe this is the reincarnation of Buddhism. Fashionable things are always fleeting, and those deep-rooted feelings that stick to the heart will never be blurred, just like the goodness of human nature and the truth of the world.

33. Zen is food, and Fa Xi is satiety. Hua Yan Jing (Volume 14) is a pure product.

34. [Everyday Zen] In the face of death, whether the soul can find a beautiful home depends on the correct guidance of virtue and good knowledge, rather than blindly practicing; Whether the soul can choose a bright future depends on his lifelong practice, not cramming.

35. In life, we will inevitably do something that we regret. Regret is a normal psychological state after a person has done something wrong, but excessive regret will become a psychological burden. If you care too much about life, you will fall into the shadow of regret.

36. Vegetarian food can cultivate endurance, compassion and wisdom.

37. Trouble is bodhi. -Master Yan Zheng.

In real life, many people, like that young man, begin to lose confidence, lose themselves and doubt themselves when encountering difficulties. In fact, fate is in our own hands. Only by self-reliance, not being disappointed when encountering difficulties and not blindly relying on others can we win dignity and success.

39. Think about it, you don't want him to be a fan, good or bad. You can't stop him or interrupt him If you glance at an idea, you can't lock it, and you can't stop it with a thousand ropes. If so, you will try to destroy him and stop him. ..... which means leave him alone. (Tang Dynasty) Wang Yun's Record of Wan Ling, the Zen Master of Huangbai Duanji.

40, life is impermanent, life is only in the breathing room, one second can not pass, life is over. So: We should seize every minute.

4 1. What you meditate on is how you expand from infinity to nothingness. What you learned from Buddhism is how to be a man from delusion to duty. What you realize is how to be self-righteous, smile calmly and live as easily as others.

42. There are eight kinds of hearts, or nine more. This is the karma in the world. What is known in the world is the manifestation of the method of thinking, which is based on roots and birth and death and varies because of ignorance. Its fundamental heart is firm.

43. People must constantly seek knowledge and experience themselves, so that their "self-function" can be improved, problems can be handled correctly and effectively, and only in this way can they be happy. Don't take an evasive attitude, because unresolved problems will keep bothering you, and evasion is the cause of degeneration and collapse.

44. Richness is the reward of fate, rewarding past efforts and good deeds; Poverty is a reminder of fate, reminding us to start today and work hard for tomorrow. Whether you are poor or rich, you should be grateful for your fate.

45. In this landscape of life, all experiences are inner experiences. How to solve the pain and accumulate wealth is not for anyone to see. Those past disputes between right and wrong have already turned into inner indifference, guarding your heart and regulating your laughter and tears. Life is a kind of ability, a kind of calm ability and a kind of balanced ability.

46. The Buddha asked: Son, why are you crying? Girl: I am lovelorn. Buddha asked: Do you love him? Girl: Love, very much! Buddha said: Does he love you? Girl: Not now. Buddha said: then, it is he who should cry, because he lost someone who loved him. And you have lost someone who doesn't love you. Revelation: if you cling to an idea, you will be trapped in an idea; Once you put it down, it will be in your heart!

47. Indifferent people are kind to life, calm without lack of enthusiasm; Cold people are not surprised, calm and not lacking in pleasure.

48. Others are proud of their talents, but you are open-minded. Others show off their eloquence, but you think more carefully. Others try to show off, but you keep a low profile. Others fight with each other, but you stay away from right and wrong. Others go straight, but you are in harmony with the circle. Others are fighting for the head, but you are shrinking. Others can't afford it, but you can bend and stretch. Others are cocky, but you don't show off. Low-key is attitude and wisdom.

49. Feelings are hard to come out of and insatiable. Just like gambling, you got a dollar, but because you tasted the sweetness and wanted to win more, you kept gambling. It was not until there was no money that you found the beauty of that money. This is why time can't control love. Maybe time didn't change him, but you wanted too much.

50. If you are vain, competitive and jealous, then no matter how much external wealth you have, you will feel inferior to others and feel annoyed. Therefore, you should be happy, feel at ease, and turn your comparison and jealousy into equality and happiness, then you will naturally have no troubles, and you will always be in a state of happiness and joy.

5 1, people suffer because they pursue the wrong things. Time flies on a stranger, you can sing and walk, don't care about your troubles, don't worry about tomorrow, let go of all your obsession, just like a simple heart. When the lotus blooms, it is pure joy. On the road of life, meet kindness and learn to pay; Meet with a smile and learn to share; Learn to be brave when encountering bumps.

52, life is a practice, practice is to take up, let go.

When there are accidents and difficulties in life, we just complain about the injustice of fate, but we don't know the truth that as you sow, so you reap. When our interpersonal relationship is not harmonious, we don't reflect on whether our personality is too picky, but just blame others blindly. When our work is not affirmed by the boss, we don't examine our own shortcomings, but complain and complain. The whole world wants to decipher the code behind life. In fact, as long as we pay attention to the positive side of fate, get rid of so many negative sides such as meanness, curse, jealousy and narrowness, and establish a healthy, positive, optimistic, tolerant, smiling, generous and open-minded outlook on life, our fate will certainly be sunny.

54. When you come to this world again, crying is not necessarily true crying, laughing is not necessarily true laughing, and everything is not the end, whether it is a smile or a sigh, savor it. In this world, there are many things that we can't predict. We can't control opportunities, but we can control ourselves; We cannot predict the future, but we can grasp the present; We can't know how long our life is, but we can arrange our life now; We can't control the changeable weather, but we can adjust our mood. With less desire, less struggle and less demand, our world will be a sunny day without haze. I believe that tomorrow, a brand-new sun will rise, whether it is repetition or reincarnation, giving the world a most beautiful smile and harvesting the fruits I hope.

55. Happiness is actually simple. As long as you experience it with your heart, you will find surprises everywhere. Learn to give yourself a happy mood, explain your work with happiness, and life will be far away from disappointment and troubles; Polish the days with love, and the years will give us incomparably rich feedback.

56. Everyone has a dream, big or small, far or near. There are thousands of ways to realize your dreams, either bumpy or flat, or complex or simple. Maybe we will spend our whole life to realize our beautiful wishes, maybe it will be an endless road, maybe we will feel like a tired goose, and we can only keep flapping our wings and flying forward, looking at the sky and water, but we have never changed our original intention, never given up our yearning, and have been chasing our dreams happily. At the end of life, when we look back on the previous journey, we will find that the original journey of life has long been fragrant.

Life is impermanent, and we never know what will happen next. Because of the difference between one thought and another, there will be different results, and life and death are between one breath.

58. I hope to be born bodhi in the future, and my body is like colored glass, and Ming Che is flawless inside and outside.

59, try to see the spring flowers gradually fall, that is, when the beauty dies of old age; No sad songs for me, I don't know what happened! -Excerpt from "Burying Flowers"

60. If the world exists, it is a unity.

6 1, born inexplicably, living helplessly, and dying inexplicably.

62. Don't over-idealize real life, thinking that everything is beautiful, without crisis or consciousness. In this way, when faced with birth, illness, death and all kinds of pain, you will feel extremely disappointed. When you can't face it, you will take some extreme roads. Therefore, a proper sense of crisis is a necessary equipment to overcome difficulties.

63. The morning bell and the evening drum on New Year's Eve are the closest to the New Year. Get rid of the last darkness and inner troubles in the new year, and we will usher in a new day and the first light of the new year. ...

64. When fame and fortune are used to support life, what you gain will be lost. When you lose it, your whole life will collapse. Moisten our hearts with Buddhism, and life will become lively and comfortable!

65. Ignorance and Jaken are the root of all evil laws.

I can cook for you, but I can't eat for you Everyone has enough to eat, and everyone lives and dies.

67. There are no two identical people in the world. The creator endowed everyone with a unique nature. All you have to do is let nature take its course and bring your nature into full play.

68. Giving is to cultivate a habit of helping others and giving.

69. Open-minded and cheerful people have high views on everything and will not be blinded by immediate gains and losses; Narrow-minded people compare with others everywhere and care about others everywhere, which will only increase their troubles, and often can't be a big deal.

70. Buddha said: Always accept your fate, because you are human.

7 1, everything in the world is empty, and only its emptiness can contain everything.

72. A wise man starts with the accumulation of small kindness, persists in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and finally becomes blessed with complete merits.

73. 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.

74. Blessing is a pure violet with a faint fragrance of flowers. May the incense of Jieding Club relieve all your troubles and bring you a happy and refreshing day. Amitabha! Happy New Year!

75. Being alive for one day is a blessing, so we should cherish it. When I cried that I had no shoes to wear, I found that someone had no feet.

76. Four widths of Buddhism: if you know how to tolerate others, you will always be happy; Learn to relax yourself and you can stay optimistic; If you can be generous to life, you will have more energy; If you want a bright future, you must start with your heart.

77. Practice is a process of purifying the mind. If there are no impurities and affectation in our hearts, we will reach the other shore without painful reincarnation and enjoy the happy and quiet silence forever.

78. Enlightened wise men know this truth well. He kept himself awake and did not follow the ups and downs of desires and emotions, so he became his own master, the master of life, and he became a truly happy person!

79. Although we don't recite many classics, if we follow them and get a correct understanding from them, our body and mind will be purified and will not change with the ups and downs of the outside world.

80. Forget it, Buddha now.