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Zen Saying

01

Water which is too pure has no fish.

02

The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target.

03

A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence!

04

What is your face before your mother and father were born?

05

When you can do nothing, what can you do?

06

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

07

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

08

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

09

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else

10

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

11

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one – himself.

12

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

13

The greatest prayer is patience

14

Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it

15

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

16

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise, you will miss most of your life.

17

Do not carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

18

A solid rock is unshaken by the wind

19

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

20

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past

21

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing.

22

Be a lamp unto yourself.

23

Long is the night to him who is awake

24

long is a mile to him who is tired

25

He is able who thinks he is able.

26

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

27

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat

28

There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.

29

Contentment is the greatest wealth.

30

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind.

31

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

32

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

33

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth

34

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings

35

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

36

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.

37

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west

38

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

39

To be idle is a short road to death

40

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

41

rain falls equally on the just and the unjust

42

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

43

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

44

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road; not going all the way, and not starting.

45

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out.

46

If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.

47

The darkest night is ignorance.

48

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.

49

If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

50

Your actions are your only belongings.

51

From a withered tree, a flower blooms.

52

A jug fills drop by drop.

53

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

54

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

55

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

56

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

57

You only lose what you cling to.

58

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

59

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

60

With our thoughts we make the world.

61

Loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

62

Nothing is forever except change.

63

It is better to travel, than to arrive.

64

Even the wishes of an ant reach to heaven.

65

With sincerity, there is virtue.

66

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

67

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

68

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

68

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

69

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

70

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

71

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

72

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

73

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

74

A needle is not sharp at both ends.

75

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

76

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

77

Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.

78

One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.

79

Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.

80

There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.

81

A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

82

It is easy to open a store - the hard part is keeping it open.

83

To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.

84

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

85

Ripe fruit falls by itself - but it doesn't fall in your mouth.

86

Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.

87

A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.

88

No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.

89

Let what is past flow away downstream.

90

You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.

91

Without oars, you cannot cross in a boat.

92

It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.

93

Poor is the person who does not know when he has had enough.

94

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run

95

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

96

A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.

97

Even if you encounter a stone bridge, tap it first before crossing.

98

Put off for one day and ten days will pass.

99

Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.

100

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!