Quote by Kaiten Nukariya Download Open image ““Zen is not, nevertheless, iconoclastic in the commonly accepted sense of the term,”” — Kaiten Nukariya ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself. — Dave Brandon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.” — Brad Warner 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
“There are some scholars that erroneously maintain that Zen is based on the doctrine of unreality of all things” — Kaiten Nukariya 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
“Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander… — Thomas Cleary 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 more so an attitude than simply a belief. Zen is feeling at peace and becoming one with an entity other than yourself.… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
“One of the major insights of Zen is that the world should be perceived directly, not as an array of embodied names.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“the new theory of matter has entirely over thrown the old conception of the unchanging atoms, and they are now regarded to be composed… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“5. Nature is the Mother of All Things. Furthermore, man has come into existence out of Nature. He is her child. She provided him… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Rin-zai also says: "Spirit is formless, but it penetrates through the world in the ten directions."[FN#149] The Sixth Patriarch expresses the same idea more… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“(O-yo-mei) won a splendid victory over the rebel army which threatened the throne of the Ming dynasty. During that warfare Wang was giving a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“in the use of the terms 'good' and 'bad.' Now let us examine how does good differ from bad. A good action ever promotes… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover it by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mirthful in appearance as if born optimists. There are also no fewer persons… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“it is the overcoming of egoism, the destroying of mean desires, the uplifting of the moral ideal, and the disclosing of inborn wisdom. [FN#12]” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The fourth stage is called the Rank of Co-operative Merit,[FN#273] in which the student 'co-operates' with other persons in order to complete his merit.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“It is bare nonsense to say that I go to school, not to be educated as a member of society, but simply to gratify… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“8. The Application of the Law of Causation to Morals. Although it may be needless to state here the law of causation at any… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
