Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaruwas a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale...
hands desert grit
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.
wall mind wicked
What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.
buddhist thinking body
Think with your whole body.
buddhist drinking glasses
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!
helping-others hands giving
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
attitude moving mean
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.
mindfulness lines series
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
buddhist attitude opposites
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.