Zen Quotes

331 quotes by 137 authors

To Zen, time and eternity are one. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. Zen suggests that… — Thomas Merton
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki
Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us… — Francis Harold Cook
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and… — Alan Watts
A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind. — Dean Koontz
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… — Roy Lichtenstein
ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite… — Kerry Thornley
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. — Hiroshi Sugimoto
I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private,… — Tim Burton
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and… — Natalie Goldberg
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer
I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race. — Brad Grey
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a… — Muso Soseki
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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