5 quotations from classic Zen Buddhism

I believe that there are good and lofty "avenues" in the world that are worth practicing; Believe in the goodness of human nature and the preciousness of life. The following are 5 quotations about Zen, hoping to help everyone.

1. If you don't want to seek or dream, you will be relieved of all the places in Bak Yan, that is, the fire house.

2. It takes a little patience to live, and if you live for a long time, you can stand on the top of the mountain and enjoy the rugged mountain road you have walked. People's predicament may last for a long time, and the best thing I can do is to find something to do and wait for the turn. If you pursue inner peace and nature, you will feel more and more fulfilled.

3. It is inevitable that everyone will stumble when they walk. There is nothing wrong with the love in the world, the knot in the world, gathering and dispersing, and understanding can be tolerant; Tolerance leads to peace; Look at it, you can let it go; See through, you can be indifferent.

4. You can see the Tao in your life if you have correct observation on things and keep your concentration at all times.

5. Boys are better to their wives after marriage than before. At a party, a friend laughed at him: Why are you still so tired after getting married? He smiled wryly and said, "Before marriage, many boys wanted to catch up with her, and many boys would be kind to her. I can only catch up with her if I am better to her." After marriage, there are fewer and fewer boys who are kind to her. Only by being kind to her can I not let her down. All I do is to make her happy. "

6. Only the brave can survive in this alliance.

7. Enlightenment is a personal experience, a clear concept, a perspective ability, an awakening of self-nature, and a clear understanding, which can only be realized by truly enlightened people.

8. Less desire is the greatest happiness in life; Contentment is the greatest wealth in life; Love is the best companion in life; Wisdom is the best light in life. Happiness and happiness do not exist in the external world, but come from the inner treasure. If you want to get real happiness and happiness, don't look for it outside, you should play and tap it from the heart.

9. A rich life comes from a contented heart. With contentment, you have eyes that can see the beauty of life; With contentment, we can find the true meaning of life in simplicity.

1. Spring is not a season, but the heart. Life is not the body, but the mind; Life is not time, but eternity; Cloud and water are not scenery, but mind; Sunrise is not morning, but vigor; Wind and rain are not astronomical phenomena, but tempering; Vicissitudes are not natural, but experiences; Happiness is not a state, but a feeling.

11. What's the use of the anger of the weak? Why should the strong be angry? Anger for doing things is meaningless self-immolation.

12. Everyone yearns for a normal heart. But a normal heart, what is the normal method? How many people can really see through it?

13. I always live in Mahayana and believe in it, knowing that I am an unfinished Buddha, and all the Buddhas are completed Buddhas. Be bodhi, but never forget. If you think twice about one thing, you will be guilty of petty crime.

14. Idle people have no fun, and busy people have no right and wrong.

15. Life and death are only the alienation of the body, and the essence of death is the rebirth of the soul.

16. We should believe that the world will be full of warmth and vitality because of our changes, and at the same time, it will bring us many fruits.

17. People often say, "The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment." The greater a person's hopes and goals, the greater his sense of gain and loss, the stronger his sense of frustration, and the easier it is to feel trouble and pain. If a person struggles for a delusion all his life, his life can only be accompanied by pain. Therefore, people should know how to distinguish between "practical goals" and "delusions", put aside unrealistic delusions and work hard for practical goals in life.

18. Although the sin in the precepts is subtle, repentance is pure. Although the ten good precepts are repented, the three evil sins are not removed. (Ancient India) Long Shu's Theory of Great Wisdom Volume 46

19. Ask the bottom of my heart: Is it good for the practice if I do this? Is it good for all beings? Is amitabha happy? After a long time, I can hear the silent voice of Amitabha and know that Amitabha is with me.

2, as long as the heart is strong, external advantages and disadvantages are not enough to fear, because advantages and disadvantages are relative, as long as you master the methods and make unremitting efforts, you can turn disadvantages into advantages.

21. If you go with the sky, you will not reduce your opinions and gain nothing from it. If you are a ninja, you are a famous bodhisattva. ..... If so, even if it goes with the sky, it will not reduce life and death, and it will not gain in nirvana. The Buddhist relics, if they are ninjas born from the same phase, are the forbearance of the famous bodhisattva Mahasa after all. ... all laws are neither promising nor inaction, without gain, without loss or increase, without growth, without prosperity or decline, without author, without rise, without cause and without exhaustion. If you are a ninja, you are called the Bodhisattva Mahasa.

22. Natural disasters come from man-made disasters, and man-made disasters come from people's hearts.

23. Doing something empty and doing nothing empty breaks all laws, leaving nothing behind, and the name is empty after all.

24. Someone asked, "Is cause and effect related to the environment?" Teacher said: "Cause and effect are caused by karma, which will constrain the environment." Ask again: "Can it be changed?" The teacher said, "You must have perseverance and a good relationship."

25. In today's society, it is wise to take a step back when something happens, because making a step back is equivalent to preparing for the future, and treating people with a generous mind is happy, because giving others convenience is also leaving a convenient door for themselves in the future.

26. The Buddha once said in the Book of the Kings of Samadhi: "The eyes, ears and nose are not positive quantities, and the tongue, body and mind are not positive quantities. If the roots are positive quantities, who should use the Holy Way?" Because the six roots of our ordinary people are not positive quantities, everything we see, hear and know is not absolute truth. If our ordinary people's six roots are positive, and everything we see, hear and know is true, then for whom does the Buddha's holy way play a role?

27. Life is like a war. You can't stick to the classic cases in the history of war, you can't dwell on the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and you can't care too much about the victory or defeat of World War I. We should focus on the overall situation, aim at the ultimate goal, find out the surrounding environment according to our own conditions, and arrange troops and formations in a targeted manner. Where to feint, where to take it, when to cheat and defeat, and when to overcome it, all of them should be aware of it and put it away freely. Only in this way can we win the battle.

28. All sentient beings are the sources of spiritual practice and the indispensable objects of spiritual practice. Bodhisattva Ji Tian said in "The Theory of Walking": "It's impossible to teach the Dharma by following the predestined relationship, waiting for Buddhas with feelings, and respecting Buddhas without respecting others." From the point of view of the help of spiritual practice, the role of all beings and Buddha is equal, and Buddha and all beings are equally important. Then why do we only respect Buddha and not all beings?

29. Being able to put down one's posture and bend down to recycle resources is a real "self-denial".

3. If you have more money, you will have less: if you have more money, you will go home less, and if you have more beauty, you will wear less clothes. If you think too much, you will achieve little, and if you succeed too much, you will live too long. Read more and have less mind, and have more mind and less peace. Those who are overworked have less income and those who have more power have less integrity. Lovers have more sleep and friends have fewer difficulties. There are fewer diseases with more laughter. How much and how little do you have?

31. If you let it go, it's normal to gather and disperse, and it's normal to come and go.

32. When a tree no longer shows off its lush foliage, but is deeply rooted in the soil, it truly has depth; When a tree no longer compares its distance from the sky, but strengthens its inner diameter, it truly has height.

33. When worldly fame and fortune mingle, desires fill life, and conflicts are filled with resentment in the air. You don't have to deliberately avoid anything, and you don't have to force anything. As long as you keep your quiet and holy heart, you can "get out of the mud without getting stained" and take your own life journey leisurely.

34. Fate is beautiful because of contentment. Don't be too dissatisfied with life: the food is too salty or too light, the clothes are good-looking or ugly, the weather is too hot or too cold, which makes it easier to satisfy yourself. As long as you have a contented mind, you can find that perfect life in a very ordinary day.

35. If we just stay in the pursuit, possession and enjoyment of material things, then our life is very superficial; If we can abandon all external fetters, think deeply about life, perceive everything in the world, and explore the true meaning of life, we may reap a rich gift of life.

36. There is a kind of happiness in tolerance. People who lack tolerance judge others by their own standards everywhere. They are full of annoyance, unhappy everywhere, always without a smile on their faces, and their tone of voice is always indifferent and lacking in friendliness. As a result, there are fewer and fewer friends and more troubles. People who are tolerant know how to put themselves in the other's shoes. They always look at problems and think about things from the perspective of others, and always think of others everywhere. Different objects require different standards. Such people use their tolerance to gain the sincerity of others, achieve mutual understanding, mutual respect, long-lasting friendship, comfortable mood and happiness. If you are broad-minded, the world will be wide, and if you can hold others, you will hold endless happiness.

37. Take care of your own affairs, and provide for your in-laws, parents, Buddhist monks, teachers and friends with clean, hygienic, sweet and delicious meals.

38. If there is no image of Buddha and no good people in the place where you live, you can remember the image of Buddha in your heart and respect all directions as if you were a Buddha.

39. Keep your heart soft, adjust your mood, and be humble to all sentient beings.

4. Time always blooms in the present. Years, often scattered in the future. Don't expect to lock time, grasp the present, and then you can grasp your life.

41. As for "self-persistence", the Indian Silent Master summed it up as "those who care, do more harm", which is very appropriate. If a person cares too much about every detail, then everyone's every move or sentence will feel that it is aimed at himself. Too much "caring" will only make you feel hurt forever, and always feel that everyone is not good to yourself and hurts yourself. In fact, this is that the mind is too small, so small that it can only accommodate itself.

42. People, and only people can become Buddhas.

43. People's reincarnation begins with lust and ends with wealth after birth. Monk Guanghui advised people to neglect wealth and profit, saying, "All crimes are born of treasure." So the first word of the five desires is wealth. When people have money, they have food, clothing and shelter, and they want to be women and marry wives. If people have no money, they can't do anything, which shows that money is powerful.

44. A baby's fat face is not thin, but it is not annoying, just right. Smile overflows, full, vivid, coquetry, almost a little sad, but really good.

45. If you don't practice the profession, you can only seek outside and expect to be blessed.

46. Lotus is fragrant all over the world because of its great functions. If it can serve the public all its life, it will be a happy life. It is a sin to base one's happiness on the suffering of others.

47. Whenever and wherever you are, you should have a carefree mind, keep an open mind and don't let yourself live too tired.

48. If you don't bother yourself, others will never bother you. Because of your own heart, you can't let go.

49. It's really like a wonderful body. In an empty body, it is enough to keep sand, and nothing should be done.

5. Autumn is a big word. Because richness and hierarchy show the beauty of steepness. Beauty is so thick, sure and practical. Autumn is the middle age of life. It has converged its edge and picked up the fruits of time. In my hand, it is heavy ... A weighty life has begun. Simplify the complex, discard the false and retain the true. Live every inch of time into your best and best time.