Top 637 Zen Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.
There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
I learned that you can stand up for yourself and still maintain your zen!
One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
Cooking is one of the most zen things - you have to be there.
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.
Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark.
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste
People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.
Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.
A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ... .
In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.
I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."
There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't.
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.
Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.
Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place.
The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.
For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.
Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.
