Attitude Quote by Douglas Hofstadter

If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply…

— Robert Linssen

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

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you…

— Robert M. Pirsig

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

— Frederick Lenz

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

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

— Tom Hoover

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

— Rajneesh

If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this…

— Seungsahn

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen has nothing to do with any god. No sincere man, no intelligent man has anything to do with any fiction. He searches within.…

— OSHO

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

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

— Alan Watts