Buddhism Quote by Quentin S. Crisp

Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that…

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

— Robert M Pirsig

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

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern Western thought.…

— Alan Wilson Watts

I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a…

— Quentin S. Crisp

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked,…

— Alan Watts

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

— Li Ching-Yuen

“I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge…

— Jacob Bronowski

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

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but…

— Pico Iyer

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close