“This was all she needed – a dead guy who talked like some Zen master trying to be her therapist.” — Jen Minkman 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see… — Adyashanti 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
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
You know I've been in these tabloids for years now. And at some point you just become a Zen master of it… — Brad Pitt 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
“In this way, our life may appear as a series of mistakes. One could call them “problems” or “challenges,” but in some… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this… — Francis Harold Cook 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
“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
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway,” — Jack Kerouac 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
“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
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
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
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