"Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed, that is human. When you are born, where do you come from? When you die, where do you go? Life is like a floating cloud which appears. Death is like a floating cloud which disappears. The floating cloud itself originally does not exist. Life and death, coming and going, are also like that. But there is one thing which always remains clear. It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death. Then what is the one pure and clear thing?"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"The Human Route", in The Whole World is a Single Flower (1992) by Seung Sahn, p. 33
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zen_proverbs
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Seung Sahn
1 quote on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Seung Sahn β
Related Quotes
"At three words, he is at the top of the house."
"Let him that beginneth the song make an end."
"A fig for him. Let him doe his worst."
"The Crosse is the ladder of heaven."
"Desires are nourished by delay."
"Farre folke fare best."
"It is better never to begin, than never to make an end."
"A man shall never bee enriched by envie."
"Experience the mother of wisedome."
"The better workeman the worser husband."