Concrete Quote by James H. Austin Download Open image “Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.” — James H. Austin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concrete Direct Everyday Experience Facts Life Personal experience Personal experiences Simple Values
Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities! — Mika Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Many people believe that the Zen lifestyle is something that is both mystical and out of this world, when in truth it is one… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
“When you live a Zen lifestyle, you are living in tune with whatever it is that you are doing on a day-to-day basis, while… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Zen is also the art of disciplining oneself to fully live life in every way possible on a daily basis.” — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Zen is the practice of being still, while doing what we do in our lives, so that we are focused and connected with what… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
“Ordinary man to Zen Master Ikkyu: ‘‘Master, please write the maxims exemplifying the highest wisdom.’’ Ikkyu immediately writes the ideogram ‘‘Attention,’’ with his brush.… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed...the energies of enlightenment… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
I used a psychologist when I was playing, It's one of the most powerful things: how you can have a concrete head and not… — Scott Parker Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act… — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
There's a point in me where it's beyond sad, seeing the state of the world today. It's so screwed up. It's terrible, and it… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
