Experience Quote by D.T. Suzuki

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

— James H. Austin

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

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

— Alan Watts

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

— Frederick Lenz

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

— D.T. Suzuki

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

“When you live a Zen lifestyle, you are living in tune with whatever it is that you are doing on a day-to-day basis, while…

— Alexis G. Roldan

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

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help!

— Mika

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

— Tom Hoover

“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

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