Zen Every Day ◯"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Everything in the universe is connected. Everything is osmosis. You cannot separate any part from the whole interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' I say, 'I do not think, that is why I exist.'"
– Taisen Deshimaru
"#Zazen is like water in a glass. Leave the water to sit quietly and soon the dirt will sink down, down, and the water will become pure."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next instant."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Religions remain what they are. Zen is #meditation. meditation is the foundation of every religion."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people’s minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!"
– Taisen Deshimaru