Taisen Deshimaru famous quotes

03-26-2025

Think with your whole body.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Buddhist #Thinking #Body
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Buddhist #Drinking #Glasses
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Helping Others #Hands #Giving
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Mindfulness #Lines
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Order #Cosmic #Interdependence
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Happy #Not Happy #Here And Now
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Buddhist #Attitude #Opposites
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

#Running #Crazy #Thinking
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Fire #Hair #Each Day
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Crush #Light #Shells
Think with the whole body.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Life #Thinking #Body
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Opposites #Imagination #Hypocrisy
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Moving #Thinking #Addiction
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

#Art #Warrior #Practice
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#School #Cutting
We should learn to think with our fingers.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Thinking #Fingers #Should
You have to practice until you die.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Practice
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Art #Roots #Competition
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Beautiful #Climbing #Bird
In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Strong #Fighting #Mind
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
-- Taisen Deshimaru

#Hands #Grit #Desert

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