"The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock."
The Feminine
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The Effort
"The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you."
Become a Mirror
"If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction."
The Modern Mind
"The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows."
My Mechanism
"You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it."
The Great Love
"Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid."
Surrender
"You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress."
Happiness
"Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy."
The Thinker
"Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else."
The Zen Approach
"This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural."