Taisen Deshimaru quotes

Think with your whole body. (Taisen Deshimaru)

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

Taisen Deshimaru

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

Taisen Deshimaru

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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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.

Taisen Deshimaru

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 saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

Taisen Deshimaru

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

Taisen Deshimaru

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

Taisen Deshimaru

We should learn to think with our fingers.

Taisen Deshimaru

You have to practice until you die.

Taisen Deshimaru

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. (Taisen Deshimaru)

You are the strongest and the others keep their distance. It is no longer necessary to win victories over them.

Taisen Deshimaru

You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

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Religions remain what they are. Zen is meditation. Meditation is the foundation of every religion. People today feel an intense need to go back to the source of religious life, to the pure essence in the depths of themselves which they can discover only through actually experiencing it. They also need to be able to concentrate their minds in order to find the highest wisdom and freedom, which is spiritual in nature, in their efforts to deal with the influences of every description imposed upon them by their environment. Human wisdom alone is not enough, it is not complete. Only universal truth can provide the highest wisdom. Take away the word Zen and put Truth or Order of the Universe in its place.

Taisen Deshimaru

It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

Taisen Deshimaru

Human wisdom alone is not enough, it is not complete. Only universal truth can provide the highest wisdom. Take away the word Zen and put Truth or Order of the Universe in its place.

Taisen Deshimaru

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated.

Taisen Deshimaru

Religions remain what they are. Zen is meditation. Meditation is the foundation of every religion.

Taisen Deshimaru

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them.

Taisen Deshimaru

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.

Taisen Deshimaru

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. (Taisen Deshimaru)

Taisen Deshimaru

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Occupation: Japanese Philosopher
Born: November 29, 1914
Died: April 30, 1982
Quotes count: 21
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