Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaruwas a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale...
crush light shells
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
thinking fingers should
We should learn to think with our fingers.
noses achieve satori
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.
art roots competition
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.
wall mind wicked
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.
glasses water brain
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.
life thinking body
Think with the whole body.
beautiful climbing bird
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
hands desert grit
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.
thinking said
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."
strong fighting mind
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.
warrior fire hair
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
buddhist attitude opposites
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.
order cosmic interdependence
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.