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- Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help!
- Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
- Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste
- Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or…
- One of the fundamentals of Zen that makes it a totally unique religion, more than any other religion of the world, is that it does…
- Zen is not a morality. It never talks about right and wrong. It never talks about the saint and the sinner. It is so respectful…
- Zen is the very principle of existence. Whether there is anyone who teaches it or not, whether there is anyone who learns it or not,…
- Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum leap. It is…
- Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. That is one of the reasons why it has not…
- In Zen a totally new dimension opens, the dimension of effortless transformation. The dimension of transformation that comes naturally, by clearer eyes, by clarity. By…
- Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that.…
- The bamboo is very much loved by the Zen poets for its tremendous quality of being hollow. Out of this hollowness of the bamboo, a…
- Zen is not a renunciation, it is a rejoicing. It is the manifesto of dance and celebration.
- I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence to your memory…
More Zen Quotes
- 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
- There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with… — Masaaki Hatsumi
- 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