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Zen Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel…
- Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or…
- Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more…
- Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not…
- In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
- All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is…
- In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate…
- In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the…
- If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In…
- Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.
- Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
- The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and…
- If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly…
- There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for…
- Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach…
- In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.
- 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…
- You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're…
- This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!
- There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
More Zen Quotes
- Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz
- Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. — John Bradshaw
- Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation… — Leonard Cohen
- Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki
- Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. — Amy Alcott
- A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.' — Philip Kapleau
- Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures… — Stephen Covey
- A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. — Richard Helms