Beholder Quote by D.T. Suzuki

“Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander…

— Thomas Cleary

“unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

— Jeff Bridges

“Zen is spontaneity, and spontaneity comes from within. Meditation awakens the intuitions, and only when the rational mind is supported by, and couched in,…

— A.G. Cusick

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon…

— Frederick Lenz

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked,…

— Alan Watts

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…

— Rajneesh

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

— Thich Thien-An

“allowing the river of light-the deepest currents of consciousness-to rise to the surface and, without anxiety, animate our lives. We are thus blessed to…

— Lawrence Kushner

We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many…

— David Fontana

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

— James H. Austin

“In order to live Zen, we must experience every moment fully while engaged in it. This concept seems so simple, yet it had a…

— Ian Tuhovsky

With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson