It is only your mind that suffers. If you are anxious you suffer, but if you disconnect the roots of your anxiety your suffering disappears... The ego suffers for itself; without it there would be no more suffering.
Taisen Deshimaru, Questions to a Zen Master
Birth, old age, illness, and death, as well as happiness and misfortune, gain and loss, love and hate, all these are important tools for weaving the brocade of human life. A brocade cannot be woven with the single color of happiness. Given time, place, and occasion, everything "contains all colors." It is in this way that the Pure Land, the Other Shore, is made manifest.
Shundo Aoyama, Zen Seeds
Mind is the Buddha, while the cessation of conceptual thought is the Way.
Zen Master Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po
Submitted February 14, 2018 at 08:11PM by WanderingRonin77 http://ift.tt/2EZukot
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