Top 1200 Zen Like Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.

I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.