Discovering Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. That is one of the reasons why it has…

— OSHO

I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

— Alan Watts

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the…

— Frederick Lenz

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

— Jane Hirshfield

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 the vehicle of reality.

— Jim Harrison

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

— John Daido Loori