Top 637 Zen Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.
I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.
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.
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
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.
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.
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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.
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.
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 have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.
An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.
When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.
Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.
I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.
In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.
In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.
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.
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.
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.
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
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.
I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
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.
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.
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.
I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
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.
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.
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.
Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.