Emptiness Quotes

Inspirational Quotes about Emptiness. Inspirational and motivational quotes on Emptiness.

Just notice how attracted the mind is to special effects, drama, and speeded-up versions of life.
Our thoughts and fantasies are not very satisfying or fulfilling. Like watching television for hours on end, they leave us feeling empty.
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You can never get enough of what does not satisfy.

~ Nirmala

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Heed the advice of the Zen master: Empty your cup. Empty your mind of all your thoughts so that you can fill it instead with those of the questioner. Concentrate.

~ Jerry Weissman

enables a person to see things as they are, empty of self-existence and inseparable from the mind that conjures them into existence.

~ Bill Porter

The only difference between buddhas and deluded beings is this: Buddhas see the emptiness of their nature, and deluded beings see the walls of their delusions.

~ Red Pine

Zen asks us to let go of our focus on the ego, to empty ourselves of our selfish attachments, to destroy our mental constructs, and simply be present to the light.

~ Zen teacher

We must be, as the eloquent Zen tradition tells us, 'empty cups,' ready to be filled, without preconceived notions of what awaits us.

~ M.A. Frank MacEowen

Reality, said Nagarjuna, cannot be realized through conceptual constructions, since concepts are contained inside reality, not vice versa. Consequently, only through the intuitive mind can reality be approached. His name for this 'reality' beyond the mind's analysis was sunyata, usually translated as 'emptiness' but sometimes as 'the Void.'

~ Thomas Hoover

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

~ John Daido Loori

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

~ Matsuo Basho

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