John Daishin Buksbazen famous quotes

In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.
-- John Daishin Buksbazen

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her . . . the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.

Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.