S. N. Maharaj

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

You Are the Path!

Joshu asked Nansen: "What is the path?"
Nansen said: "Everyday life is the path."

Tishan

Words have the impossible task to explain the beauty of silence. They cannot even touch it but still it has to be done.
Silence is beautiful.
Silence is the way.
Silence is the answer.

The Dhammapada

The gift of Truth conquers all gifts.
The taste of Truth conquers all sweetness.
The Joy of Truth conquers all pleasures.
The loss of desires conquers all sorrows.

Dogen

Clear water
All the way to the bottom
A fish swims like a fish.

Vast sky
Transparent throughout
A bird flies like a bird.

Tozen

In its own true light, spirit cannot find corruption and nothing divided. It can only find peace and direct wisdom.

Osho

Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ...

Tishan

Being a free man is to put away what is in your head
- imagined truth, preconceptions, conditionings -
and to face what may happen to you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

If your knowledge of fire has been turned
to certainty by words alone,
then seek to be cooked by the fire itself.
Don't abide in borrowed certainty.
There is no real certainty until you burn;
if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Maitreya Ishwara

Growth rarely happens just by reading books or listening to teachers. It requires immersion in the fire of Now.

Ikkyu

Coming from nowhere
Departing for nowhere
A flashing glance...
Entering the mystery!

Niu-t'ou Fa-Jung

Knowing dharmas is not knowing
Not knowing is knowing the essential...

The highest principle cannot be explained:
It is neither free nor bound
Lively and attuned to everything
It is always right before you.

Nagarjuna

It cannot be called
void or not-void
or both or neither.

But, in order to point it out,
it is called...
the Void

Nisargadatta Maharaj

'I am' itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Rabia

If you give up being a doer,
if you give up being in control
and you accept yourself as a happening in Existence
the way Existence wants you to be,
all guilt and all shame are suddenly left behind.

Ken Wilber

The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

Osho

Meditation does not belong to any religion, and meditation is not a belief. It is a pure science of the inner.
Learning to be silent, learning to be watchful, learning to be a witness; learning that you are not the mind, but something beyond -- the consciousness -- will prepare you to receive truth.

Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.

Kabir

Enter your temple: be bathed from all sides. Who remains without stays dry. Chop off the head for eternal joy; an unchopped head is suffering.

Ekai

In spring, hundreds of flowers;
in autumn, a harvest moon;
In summer, a refreshing breeze;
in winter, snow will accompany you.
If useless things do not hang in your mind,

Any season is a good season for you.

Sosan

Words!
The Way is beyond language, for in it there is
no yersterday
no tomorrow
no today.

Tishan

The reality is always here and now. Yesterday is gone and it cannot come back, tomorrow is not here yet and it will never come because it it always now.
You want to be happy, be happy now!
You want to meditate, meditate now.
Do not postpone.

Tao te ching

To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Murphy

To do nothing
is the most
difficult thing
in the world!

To err
is human
to admit it
is divine.