30 Zen Proverbs / Page 2
- 11. In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.
- 12. It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.
- 13. Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.
- 14. Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
- 15. Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
- 16. No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
- 17. One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult."
- 18. Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
- 19. Sit, walk, or run, but don't wobble.
- 20. Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
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