Zen One Liners

[Nameless]

Those pithy remarks that really move us. Volumes of ideas expressed in only a few words. There's a lovely art to that, so figured it'd be cool to start a thread of handy Zen one liners. I'll kick it off with a classic and an original:

"Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form."

"Freedom comes not from independence, but interdependence."

Gassho,
John

[Daitetsu]

Great idea, John!

"If you want to know me,
look inside your heart."

- Lao-Tsu

Gassho,

Daitetsu

[Jishin]

Mu!

Gassho, Jishin

[Ryumon]

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

Gassho,

Kirk

[Erin]

God is Love, Gaius.

-- Angel Six, Battlestar Galactica

[Jishin]

Zen One Liners

Not one, not two.

[Jishin]

Bodhidharma replied, “Bring me your mind, and I will pacify it.”

[Sekishi]

Everything you meet is your life
-- Taigu (quoting someone else? I don't know.)

[Sekishi]

If you want to know the undying person in the hut, don't separate from this skin bag here and now.
-- Shitou

[Sekishi]

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
-- Dogen

[Sekishi]

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
-- Dogen

[Sekishi]

Vast emptiness, nothing holy.
-- Bodhidharma

[Sekishi]

Attention. Attention. Attention.
-- Ichu

[Jishin]

No need to be defensive if there is no need to be defensive.

-- Jishin

[Nindo]

Not always so.

- Suzuki Roshi