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Zen quotes8/14/2023 ![]() "What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that of a beggar." A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked: "Is there really a paradise and a hell?".Zen stories The following Zen stories, and many others, can be found in the collection Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compiled by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki, Tuttle Publishing: ISBN 0804831866, 9780804831864 The Gates of Paradise Not the wind, not the flag mind is moving.1228) Compiled by Wumen Huikai (Mumon Ekai ) "The Human Route", in The Whole World is a Single Flower (1992) by Seung Sahn, p.Then what is the one pure and clear thing? It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death. Life and death, coming and going, are also like that.īut there is one thing which always remains clear. The floating cloud itself originally does not exist. Life is like a floating cloud which appears.ĭeath is like a floating cloud which disappears. When you are born, where do you come from? Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed, that is human. ![]() Hakuin Ekaku Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin trans.You know the sound of two hands clapping tell me, what is the sound of one hand?.Quoted as a Zen koan in Kevin Grange, "Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World" (2011), p.When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing.Quoted as a Zen proverb in Julia Shpak, "Power of Plentiful Wisdom" (2010), p.No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
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