Quotes About Taisen

#1. Everything in the universe is connected
Everything is osmosis
You cannot separate any part from the whole
Interdependence rules the cosmic order.

Taisen Deshimaru

#2. In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

Taisen Deshimaru

#3. To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

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#4. To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

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#5. 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!

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#6. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

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#7. If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

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#8. Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again - ever! John 4:14

Beth Moore

#9. Think with your whole body.

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#10. 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.

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#11. From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

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#12. I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

Bill Plympton

#13. Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.

Ben Harper

#14. Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

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#15. Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

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#16. You have to practice until you die.

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#17. Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

John Edgar Wideman

#18. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Luigi Pirandello

#19. Think with the whole body.

Taisen Deshimaru

#20. Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin

#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

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#24. Merchants, conquerors and prophets were the first people who managed to transcend the binary evolutionary division, 'us vs them', and to foresee the potential unity of humankind.

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. 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.

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#26. Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

Charles R. Swindoll

#27. We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

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#28. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear,

Bram Stoker

#29. 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.

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#30. We should learn to think with our fingers.

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#31. Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

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#32. Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.

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#33. 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.

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