“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“If we can unify the apparent duality between the great uncontrollable energy and the natural wisdom of our monkey mind, if we… — Oeset Drakir Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie… — Baisao Copy Share Image
“There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. In… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
“I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!” — C.B. Murphy Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“Life's Journeys Inward seeking moves towards being-time Outward seeking journies among life's ornaments” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it. — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
“You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger: All beginning comes… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that I love your ordinariness, because I, too, am ordinary. The truth is, we are all ordinary.… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
“When we fancy ourselves to be a particular thing with a name, we see ourselves as we would a cork in a… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“When you break something, is your first impulse to throw it away? Or do you repair it but feel a sadness because… — Gary Thorp Copy Share Image
“Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
“Among the educated young there is therefore a startling and unprecedented interest in the transformation of human consciousness. All over the Western… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
