Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaruwas a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale...
thinking fingers should
We should learn to think with our fingers.
school cutting firsts
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
noses achieve satori
If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.
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.
glasses water brain
During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.
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.
crush light shells
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
opposites imagination hypocrisy
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.
warrior fire hair
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
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.
order cosmic interdependence
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
mindfulness lines series
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
moving thinking addiction
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
practice dies
You have to practice until you die.