I'm pretty at zen with my past.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

— Stark Sands

“The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it “has no patience with…

— Peter Matthiessen

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.”

— Steven L. Peck

“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter…

— Francis Harold Cook

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness…

— Jeff Bridges

“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at. This…

— Alaric Hutchinson

“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when…

— Eugen Herrigel

“According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is no-thing, but contains all things within…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Cooking is one of the most zen things - you have to be there.

— Roy Choi

“50 Zen, read shit… BECOME MASTER!”

— Deyth Banger

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go…

— Lawrence Bender