Intimate Quote by Li Ching-Yuen

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

— Robert M Pirsig

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

— Robert M. Pirsig

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

— Dogen

“Before I had studied Chan for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate…

— Qingyuan Weixin

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“The Scripture of Zen is written with facts simple and familiar, so simple and familiar with everyday life that they escape observation on that…

— Kaiten Nukariya

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe were coming…

— Peter Matthiessen

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a…

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

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

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

— D.T. Suzuki