Top 1200 Zen Like Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.

Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.

In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always enjoyed writing songs and playing, but there was something about going in and capturing it that felt very Zen and perfect for me. A light switch went on and I just realized that's where my musical capacity was the most suited. I just followed on blind faith that that was like a calling for me.

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

Do not do that again," he said stiffly. "Don't kiss me back then," I retorted. He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control." "You're doing a great job," I said bitterly.

I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always enjoyed writing songs and playing, but there was something about going in and capturing it that felt very Zen and perfect for me. A light switch went on and I just realized that's where my musical capacity was the most suited. I just followed on blind faith that that was like a calling for me.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.