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 sake. Meditation is Drinking it!

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

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Think with your whole body.

To receive everything one must open ones hands and give.

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.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

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.

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

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.