Muso Soseki Professions : Poet Born : 1275 Died : October 20, 1351 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Muso Soseki When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence. Muso Soseki confused ice art When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart. Muso Soseki garden heart religion When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home. Muso Soseki headings matter home The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs. Muso Soseki ordinary reality people Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream. Muso Soseki views dream giving It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. Muso Soseki practice relaxation littles If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right. Muso Soseki wrong-person persons teaching Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating Muso Soseki awakening helping-others may Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
