Top 637 Zen Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
Explore popular Zen quotes.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."
Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.
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.
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.
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.
No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.
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.
I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
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.
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.
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.
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.
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 suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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.
Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.
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.
I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.
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.
There's something so zen-like and grateful of just ripping a hot wing apart and getting it all over your face, and everyone's happy. I love that atmosphere.
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.
Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.
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.
I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.
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.
I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.
Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!
We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.