Concepts Quote by D.T. Suzuki

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

— James H. Austin

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

— D.T. Suzuki

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation…

— Thomas Merton

Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the…

— Robert Linssen

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

— Frederick Lenz

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

— D.T. Suzuki

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

Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever…

— Jean Smith

“Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or…

— Chris Prentiss

“Zen is more so an attitude than simply a belief. Zen is feeling at peace and becoming one with an entity other than yourself.…

— Alexis G. Roldan

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little…

— Thich Thien-An