Empty Mind Quotations

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.