"A Zen student asked his roshi the most……" — Dan Millman
"A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention.""
—
Dan Millman
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
144 Quotes by Dan Millman
Dan Millman has 144 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
-
Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
-
When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
-
Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person…
-
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of…
-
A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of…
-
Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.
-
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as…
-
Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.
-
Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because…
-
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
-
When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as…
See all 144 quotes by Dan Millman »
More Asked Quotes
This quote is filed under Asked Quotes,
one of 5,201 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
-
No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me…
— Sebastian Bach
-
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
— Gaston Bachelard
-
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
— John Banville
-
I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me…
— Travis Barker
-
Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
— Roseanne Barr
-
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
-
Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,…
— Evan Bayh
-
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
See all 5,201 Asked Quotes »