Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.