Frasi di Taisen Deshimaru

Taisen Deshimaru Rōshi è stato un monaco buddhista giapponese, fondatore dell'Associazione Zen Internazionale. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Novembre 1914 – 30. Aprile 1982
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Taisen Deshimaru: Frasi in inglese

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

As quoted in Just Before Dark : Collected Nonfiction (1999) by Jim Harrison, p. 39

“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.”

Online interview http://www.zen-deshimaru.com/EN/sangha/deshimaru/q-r/0101.htm
Contesto: 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.

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

As quoted in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom (2000) by Gill Farrer Halls, p. 162
Contesto: 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.

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

As quoted in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom (2000) by Gill Farrer Halls, p. 162
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

As quoted in Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery (1998) by G. Cameron Hurst, G. Cameron Hurst, 3rd, G. Hurst I, p. 4

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

Online interview http://www.zen-deshimaru.com/EN/sangha/deshimaru/q-r/0101.htm
Contesto: 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.

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

As quoted in Zen to Go (1989) by Jon Winokur, p. 126
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

As quoted in Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development (2002) by Patrick McDermott, p. xix

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

As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 279

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

As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99

“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.”

As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99

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

As quoted in Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World (2002) by Brenda Shoshanna, p. 80

“We should learn to think with our fingers.”

As quoted in Meditation (2003) by Jose Lorenzo-Fuentes, p. 113

“Think with your whole body.”

As quoted in Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior : A Companion to the Book That Changes Lives (2007) by Dan Millman, p. 19

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

As quoted in Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom : A Collection of 10,000 Powerful Quotations (2003) by Andy Zubko, p. 184

“You have to practice until you die.”

As quoted in Leading from Within : Martial Arts Skills for Dynamic Business and Management (1999) by Robert Pater, p. 223

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