Buddhist Quote by Shunryu Suzuki Download Open image “Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.” — Shunryu Suzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhist Concentration Everyday Everyday routine Excitement Focus Habits Kind Routine Usual
Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities! — Mika Copy Share Image
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When you live a Zen lifestyle, you are living in tune with whatever it is that you are doing on a day-to-day basis, while… — Alexis G. Roldan 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
“In order to live Zen, we must experience every moment fully while engaged in it. This concept seems so simple, yet it had a… — Ian Tuhovsky Copy Share Image
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon… — Shunryu 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
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
