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Top 20 Taïsen Deshimaru Quotes (2025 Update)

Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “You have to practice until you die.”

1. “You have to practice until you die.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”

2. “If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” I say, “I do not think, that is why I exist.””

3. “Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” I say, “I do not think, that is why I exist.””

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next instant.”

4. “To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next instant.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Think with your whole body.”

5. “Think with your whole body.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It’s exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.”

6. “During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It’s exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.”

7. “We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.”

8. “Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.”

9. “Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.”

10. “Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?”

11. “Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It’s enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance – embracing all opposites.”

12. “Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It’s enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance – embracing all opposites.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.”

13. “The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.”

14. “You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.”

15. “From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.”

16. “The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.”

17. “You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.”

18. “In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.”

19. “To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!”

20. “If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or sake. Meditation is Drinking it!”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.”

21. “Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.”

22. “If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.”

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Taïsen Deshimaru Quote: “We should learn to think with our fingers.”

23. “We should learn to think with our fingers.”

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