Zen proverbs

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Â== Zen ==

• A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered 'How am I supposed to know?'

'How do you know? You're a Zen master!' exclaimed the samurai. 'Yes, but not a dead one,' Hakuin answered.

• Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

• If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

• In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short.

• It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.

• Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.

• The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.

• The tighter you squeeze the less you have.

• The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men.

• Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.

• To do a certain kind of thing, you have to be a certain kind of person.

• To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

• To know that there is nothing to know, and to grieve that is is so difficult to communicate this "nothing to know" to others - this is the life of Zen, this is the deepest thing in the world.

• When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.

• When you reach the top, keep climbing.

• Why do you ask questions? If you already knew the flame was fire then the meal was cooked along time ago.

• I only know a snowflake cannot exist in a storm of fire.

• A weed is a plant whos virtues are only waiting to be discovered.

• Women may spend their whole lives looking for true love. If you wish for true love, learn to love yourself.