Buddhism Quote by John Daido Loori

Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

— Robert Linssen

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply…

— Alan Watts

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

— Thomas Merton

“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

Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!

— Mika

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the…

— Katsuki Sekida

In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to…

— Rajneesh

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