Seungsahn Quotes

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

Human beings understand too much.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!