Apples Quote by Anne Bancroft

“Zen is above all a matter of personal experience. The student is asked to accept nothing the truth of which he cannot demonstrate for…

— Katsuki Sekida

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

— Gerald May

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation…

— Thomas Merton

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist…

— Howard Fast

“unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

— Jeff Bridges

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers…

— D.T. Suzuki

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

— Takeda Shingen

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

— Rajneesh

“Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.”

— Brad Warner

If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply…

— Robert Linssen