You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“... I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It… — Bassui Takusho Copy Share Image
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Meditation begins now , right here . It can't begin someplace else or at some other time. To paraphrase the great Zen… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. The… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Ordinary man to Zen Master Ikkyu: ‘‘Master, please write the maxims exemplifying the highest wisdom.’’ Ikkyu immediately writes the ideogram ‘‘Attention,’’ with… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters.… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. “How can you be so calm?” He got to his feet, unfolding with… — Angela Quarles Copy Share Image
A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway,” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master… — Barbara L. Jordan Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)” — Yasutani Roshi Copy Share Image
