Introduction Quotes

274 quotes by 183 authors

• Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen… — Frederick Lenz
• If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice,… — Frederick Lenz
• It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular… — Frederick Lenz
• If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or… — Frederick Lenz
• Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets… — Frederick Lenz
• The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in… — Frederick Lenz
• Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and… — Frederick Lenz
• The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz
• The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we… — Frederick Lenz
• To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody. — Frederick Lenz
• In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit,… — Frederick Lenz
• In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are… — Frederick Lenz
• In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't… — Frederick Lenz
• The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy… — Frederick Lenz
• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts. — Frederick Lenz
• The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against… — Frederick Lenz
• Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation. — Frederick Lenz
• You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind… — Frederick Lenz
• There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. — Frederick Lenz
• In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind. — 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 Niccolo Machiavelli
• 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
• 1 Introduction Quote by Jeff Cohen
• 1 Introduction Quote by Carleton S. Coon
• 1 Introduction Quote by Elliot Grove
• 1 Introduction Quote by George Henry Lewes
• 1 Introduction Quote by Stephen Wolfram
• 1 Introduction Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1 Introduction Quote by Peter Singer
• 1 Introduction Quote by Edsger Dijkstra
• 1 Introduction Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter
• 1 Introduction Quote by Walter Lippmann
• 1 Introduction Quote by Henry Sweet
• 1 Introduction Quote by Jeaniene Frost