Ordinary Mind Zen

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary, mind and/or zen:

    I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
    Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
    Alan Watts (1915–1973)