Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaruwas a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale...
mindfulness lines series
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
moving thinking addiction
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
practice dies
You have to practice until you die.
happy not-happy here-and-now
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
art warrior practice
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
helping-others hands giving
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
buddhist drinking glasses
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!
running honor dying
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?
attitude moving mean
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.
running crazy thinking
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!
buddhist thinking body
Think with your whole body.
opposites imagination hypocrisy
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.
opposites imagination hypocrisy
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.
school cutting firsts
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.