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- Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure…
- One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for…
- And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are…
- Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of creativity. The only…
- The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that…
- When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort;…
- If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only…
- In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first…
- Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards…
- Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made…
- The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just…
- This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and…
- Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
- Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is…
- Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to…
- Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and…
- Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations…
- Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate in the clouds;…
- If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is…
- Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
More Zen Quotes
- Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. — John Bradshaw
- There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm… — Jeff Bridges
- 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
- Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making… — Taisen Deshimaru
- Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki
- Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside,… — Peter Levitt
- After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high… — Mary Brave Bird
- Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki
- Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. — P.J. O'Rourke
- 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
- Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No… — Rajneesh