Contemplation Quote by Frederick Lenz

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

— Rajneesh

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad,…

— Alan Watts

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...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.

— Dave Brandon

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

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

— Rajneesh

This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end…

— Frederick Lenz

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

— Thich Thien-An

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

— D.T. Suzuki

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

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

— Alan Watts