How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“This was all she needed – a dead guy who talked like some Zen master trying to be her therapist.” — Jen Minkman 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
“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
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was a cook… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism… — Quentin S. Crisp 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
“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
“One day a man of the people said to Zen Master Ikkyu: “Master, will you please write for me some maxims of… — Roshi P. Kapleau Copy Share Image
“9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the… — Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps Copy Share Image
“A Chinese Zen master[FN#230] tells us that the method of instruction adopted by Zen may aptly be compared with that of an… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Yang Shan (Kyo-zan) asked Wei Shan (I-san): 'What shall we do when hundreds, thousands, and millions of things beset us all at… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Take Away Their Stick If the other’s reaction to our No is to hurt or threaten us, our first instinct may be… — William Ury Copy Share Image
“We will be entering the beautiful world of a Zen master's no-mind. Sosan is the third Zen Patriarch. Nothing much is known… — Osho Copy Share Image
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
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
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