Koan Quotes: top 19 famous quotes about Koan

Koan Quotes & Sayings

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The will of God is single and totally one in Him. — William Ames

Don't wait for the man standing in the
snow
to cut off his arm help him now — Ikkyu

Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu

We're lost where the mind can't find us
utterly lost — Ikkyu

Born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to — Ikkyu

one of the first to provide poor invalids with a level of care that had previously been available only to the rich. In — Jennet Conant

Don't be too quick in your assessment of God's gifts to you. Thank him. Moment by moment. Day by day. — Max Lucado

Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted. — Mark Nepo

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres, — Dick Allen

Sex koan #14: The secret to sex is having some. — A. Aimee

It isn't that we're alone or not alone
whose voice do you want mine? yours? — Ikkyu

That stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind — Ikkyu

Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him. — Scarlett Thomas

Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there — Ikkyu

I'd love to give you something
but what would help? — Ikkyu

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them. — Milo Ventimiglia

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study. — Frederick Lenz

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat. — Matt Groening

Moms, take it from me: do not buy your baby too many shoes when they're so tiny, because their feet grow every week. — Ciara