Approach Quote by Rajneesh

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

— Howard Fast

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

— Rajneesh

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

— Gene Clark

“Zen is completely free from the fetters of old dogmas, dead creeds, and conventions of stereotyped past, that check the development of a religious…

— Kaiten Nukariya

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist…

— Howard Fast

I call Zen the only living religion because it is not a religion, but only a religiousness. It has no dogma, it does not…

— OSHO

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the…

— D.T. Suzuki

Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum leap. It…

— OSHO

The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing…

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

— Jim Harrison