Doe Quote by D.T. Suzuki

We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

— D.T. Suzuki

If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen,…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to…

— Rajneesh

“Zen training is a means of enabling us to live our ordinary lives supremely well.”

— Katsuki Sekida

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is…

— Rajneesh

Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life.

— Philip Toshio Sudo

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

— Mika

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

— Frederick Lenz

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes…

— Anne Bancroft

The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind…

— Frederick Lenz