Zen proverbs

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”

“When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing.”

“You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?”

“Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.”

“A Zen master named Gisan asked a young student to bring him a pail of water to cool his bath. The young student attained Zen in that instant. He changed his name to Tekisui, which means a drop of water.”

“The Layman was sitting in his thatched cottage one day studying the sūtras. "Difficult, difficult," he said; "like trying to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree." "Easy, easy," Mrs. Pang said; "like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed." "Neither difficult nor easy," Ling Zhao said; "on the hundred grass tips, the great Masters' meaning."”