Zen Quotes

“Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.”
― Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

“Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.”
― Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

“There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.”
― Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

“Zen is a single step—the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn’t matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world.”
― Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

“God is like the sky, like the empty sky.

It has no boundaries so it cannot be defined. You cannot say where it begins and where it ends. It is eternal, it is infinite -- yet it is right in this place, just in front of you. If you are relaxed it is there; if you become tense it disappears.

Life cannot be possessed because life is God. Existence cannot be possessed because existence is God.

YOU CANNOT TAKE HOLD OF IT.

-- remember --

BUT YOU CANNOT LOSE IT.

Yes, you cannot possess it, but there is no way to lose it either. It is there. It is always there.

You have to drop your rush, your hurry, your ideas to go somewhere, to reach, to become, to be this and that. You have to stop becoming. And it is there; you cannot lose it.

There is no competition, there is nobody blocking your way, there are no competitors.

You need not be in a hurry. You need not make any effort to grab. There is nobody competing with you and there is nobody standing in front of you -- only God, only God.

You can relax. You need not be afraid that you will miss it. You cannot miss it in the very nature of things. You cannot lose him. You relax.

There is no hurry because God is not something in time -- relax. There is nowhere to go because God is not distant in some star -- relax. You cannot miss in the very nature of things -- relax.

relax. Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand -- relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

God is so big, so huge, so enormous. It is the totality of existence -- who can exhaust it?

There is no struggle, no competition. And there is eternal time available. Don't be in a hurry and don't be serious.”
― Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

“El zen proporciona cordura al mundo, cordura total. Desecha todas las ideologías. Dice: «Sé vacío. Mira sin ninguna idea. Mira en la naturaleza de las cosas pero sin ninguna idea, prejuicio ni presunción». No te preocupes… ése es uno de los fundamentos. Así que hay que abandonar la teología; si no, te mantendrá”
― Osho, El sendero del Zen