Top 1200 Zen Master Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Athletes love challenges, and golf is something you can never master.

The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

My father has his master's degree. My uncle does as well.

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

I've always considered myself a master in the art of real talk.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Minutes to learn, a lifetime to master. People just don't understand that

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point is, as Zen is always saying - and Tibetans understand this also very well - every activity becomes perfect Buddha activity.

Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.

Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's not always about wearing black and listening to a Sarah McLachlan song.

The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

Manchester is a past master at bringing light to dark times.