Zen master Quote by Jack Kerouac

“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.”

— Brad Warner

“So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as…

— Jaimal Yogis

“That's all there is, enlightenment on the end of a cock. It doesn't get any more Zen than that.”

— Jaden Wilkes

“Zen is above all a matter of personal experience. The student is asked to accept nothing the truth of which he cannot demonstrate for…

— Katsuki Sekida

“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

“ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you.…

— Lew Welch

“Honestly.I don't understand Zen.It seems if you don't answer properly,or if you are rude,people get enlightened.”

— Jerry Pinto

“Zen life is not to make himself but to grow that way.”

— Alan W. Watts

“Overall, the goal of Zen Meditation is to see things for what they really are. This includes yourself and the world around you.”

— Ian Tuhovsky

“Zen masters enjoyed a long life in spite of their extremely simple mode of living.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“...my life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that…

— J.D. Salinger