Zen Journal

"It’s not happiness as an emotion, it is satisfaction and cessation of suffering that you will find when you stop searching for it. This catch-22 is the hardest part of buddhism to understand from the perspective of someone who has never felt the feeling before."

A man said to the Buddha, “I want Happiness.”

Buddha said, first remove “I”, that’s ego,

then remove “want”, that’s desire.

See now you are left with only Happiness.

(Source: reddit.com)

#self #happiness #zen #buddha #buddhism #ego #want #desire #suffering #catch-22

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“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”

~Buddha

(via liliezen)

#zen #buddha #path

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"There is no fire like desire, there is no rage like anger… there is no relationship better than trust"

the Buddha.

#buddha #trust

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(Source: , via liliezen)

#buddha #zen #quote

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(via paganbuddha)

#zen #buddha #cat #photo

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"It does not matter how long you have forgotten, only how soon you remember."

attributed to the Buddha, speaking on the natural tendency to drift from mindfulness and practice.

#zen #buddha #mindfulness #forgotten #remember

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(Source: nfctd, via iliketolive)

#buddha #coal #grasping #anger

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(via iliketolive)

#zen #buddha #thought #thinking #all that we are #buddhism

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thetaoofme:

Zen

A legend states that Buddha first conveyed the concept of Zen in what is now called the Flower Sermon. Buddha gathered all of his disciples and remained silent for a long time. The monks worried that he had fallen ill. But then Buddha picked up a flower and twirled it slowly in his hand. Only one of his disciples “got it”.

(via lazyyogi)

#zen #flower #sermon #buddhism #buddha