Zen Quotes

331 quotes by 137 authors

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang… — Tom Robbins
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that… — Chris Patten
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life. — Guy Kawasaki
I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to… — Peter Farrelly
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. — Seth Godin
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. — Reginald Horace Blyth
Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the… — Bodhidharma
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz
You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the… — Frederick Lenz
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 lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no… — Rajneesh
Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become… — Rajneesh
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how… — Rajneesh
For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man… — Rajneesh
Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special. — Rajneesh
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no… — Rajneesh

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