Behavior Quote by Bill Porter

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we…

— Brad Warner

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and…

— Nhat Hanh

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless…

— John Daishin Buksbazen

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Zen movement is a meditative practice.”

— Bryant McGill

Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future…

— Peter Matthiessen

“Zen is the practice of being still, while doing what we do in our lives, so that we are focused and connected with what…

— David Carlyle

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

— Yamada Koun

“Zen is a present state of mind where one honors the task they are partaking of, even if the task is sitting still and…

— Jasun Ether

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

— Jean Smith

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

“Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or…

— Chris Prentiss