Sayings from the East

A few meditations from Asian masters:



When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.

Fen-Yang



The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences. To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

Seng-T'san



In the beginners mind there are many possibilties, but in the experts mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki



All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Nagarjuna



All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire to make oneself happy.

Shantideva