Introduction Quotes

274 quotes by 183 authors

• There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or… — Frederick Lenz
• There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. — Frederick Lenz
• Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. — Frederick Lenz
• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz
• With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of… — Frederick Lenz
• Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. — Frederick Lenz
• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. — Frederick Lenz
• There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception… — Frederick Lenz
• From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz
• Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is… — Frederick Lenz
• Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. — Frederick Lenz
• Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view. — Frederick Lenz
• People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. — Frederick Lenz
• There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I… — Frederick Lenz
• Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show… — Frederick Lenz
• Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation,… — Frederick Lenz
• Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study. — Frederick Lenz
• Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time. — Frederick Lenz
• Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of… — Frederick Lenz
• Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. — Frederick Lenz

Who Wrote These Introduction Quotes

183 authors contributed a total of 274 Introduction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 77 Introduction Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 4 Introduction Quotes by Mak_786
• 3 Introduction Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Plato
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Orson Scott Card
• 2 Introduction Quotes by A A Milne
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Arthur Machen
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Camille Paglia
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Peter Sotos
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
• 2 Introduction Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
• 1 Introduction Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine
• 1 Introduction Quote by Dan Quayle
• 1 Introduction Quote by Tim Robbins
• 1 Introduction Quote by Lalla Ward
• 1 Introduction Quote by Steve Martin
• 1 Introduction Quote by Barry McCaffrey
• 1 Introduction Quote by Jack Steinberger
• 1 Introduction Quote by Alan Parsons
• 1 Introduction Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Introduction Quote by Roy Harper
• 1 Introduction Quote by Tom Sutton
• 1 Introduction Quote by Groucho Marx