Zen Quote by OSHO “Zen is not a renunciation, it is a rejoicing. It is the manifesto of dance and celebration.” — OSHO ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Zen
“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
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. — Gene Clark 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 practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless… — John Daishin Buksbazen 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 not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“That which is of great value cannot be attained through aggression. You will be able to find the mystery of life only if you enter through the door of surrender. If you bow down, if you pray, you will be able to reach the center of love. Courting God is almost as good as courting a woman. One needs to… — Osho Copy Share
“If you love a person, you project things which are not there. If you hate a person, again you project things which are not there. In love the person becomes a god. In hate the person becomes a devil – and the person is neither god nor devil. The person is simply himself or herself. These devils and gods are… — Osho Copy Share
“The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about each gesture,each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed,your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music… — Osho Copy Share
“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting time? Use this time! Much can be done in it, much can be achieved. That desire has been waiting for so long and there has been no time, and you are wasting time in meditation? Forget it. Those… — Osho Copy Share
“Whatever has been said about you by others, simply drop it. It is absolutely crap. They don’t know about themselves; what can they say about you which can be truthful? And the opinions that you have collected from others … just try to watch from whom you are collecting your opinions. They are not from a Gautam Buddha, or from a… — Osho Copy Share
“They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings.” — Osho Copy Share
“The ego is possible only in conflict, struggle. If you have nothing to fight about, you will create some way or other to fight.” — Osho Copy Share
Politics is mundane; politicians are servants of the people. Religion is sacred; it guides peoples spiritual growth. Politics is the lowest as far as values are concerned, and religion is the highest as far as values are concerned. They are separate. I want politics not to interfere with religion. The higher has every right to interfere, but the lower has… — OSHO Copy Share
“There is a great need to be needed. Remember, you feel good whenever you are needed. Sometimes, even if it brings misery to you, even then you love to be needed.” — Osho Copy Share
“All possible resources have to be used, so that you can learn to use your anger in such a way that it becomes compassion, to use your sex in such a way that it becomes love, to use your greed in such a way that it becomes sharing. Every energy that you have can become its polar opposite, because the… — Osho Copy Share
“The three religions born outside India don’t have any name for it because they never went far in search of oneself. They remained childish, immature – clinging to a God, clinging to prayer, clinging to a savior. You can see what I mean: they are always dependent, somebody else is to save them. They are not mature. Judaism, Christianity, Islam… — Osho Copy Share
“Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source, the womb. Your ego functions like a seed in it. Your will to do this or that, to achieve this or that, to become this or that – acts like a seed. And the moment the art of your… — Osho Copy Share
What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is no-thing, but contains all things within… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at. This is the key and one of the most fundamental insights about the ‘red flags’ that we often dismiss regarding the people in our lives. If someone complains a lot to you about other people, guess what?… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but rather they arise together, and are mutually dependent on one another. Everything in the world of form is constantly changing, constantly dying, and constantly being reborn—which is why Buddhists say that there is no-self; no form… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome at a later time. However, it must be said in the most unambiguous terms that this is not real Zen. To follow the Dharma involves a complete reorientation… — Francis Harold Cook Copy Share
“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.” — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
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