Top 1200 Zen Master Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

When I would meditate, I realised I could master my mind.

Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities.

Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle--even though it cannot be solved--is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see that money has no place in state functions, and, the money power being entirely in his own hands, he will easily master the state and clearly define its services. Thus money must be seen as the means of mastery of all economic and political problems. Until we have mastered money we shall not master any of our problems. Not money, but a false money system, is the root of all evil.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Norbert Leo Butz is a master class in energy.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.

Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

I'm that person, if I'm not good at it, that means I have to go back and master it.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.

Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate in the clouds; make participation your lifestyle and the whole existence becomes such a joy, such an ecstasy. You could not have dreamed of a better universe.

I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and observe your thoughts - oh, and by the way, what you perceive as you' doesn't actually exist.' I loved the minimalist approach of it.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.

If Master P ever hollered at me, I'd holla at him.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.