Action Quote by Philip Toshio Sudo

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

— Jane Hirshfield

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

— Bodhidharma

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

— Frederick Lenz

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

— Yamada Koun

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the…

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

— Gerald May

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

— Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a present state of mind where one honors the task they are partaking of, even if the task is sitting still and…

— Jasun Ether

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

— Frederick Lenz

With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind…

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

— Tom Hoover