Quotes About Chan

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

The Great Way has no gate, there are thousands of paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone. Wu-men—Chan Buddhist

All, right then. Henry raised his hand like a sorcerer. Oh, Ling Chan, Madame Curie of the dream world, he intoned dramatically, barely keeping a straight face. Sleep hath released thee! Now is the time thou must waketh! Ling rolled her eyes. You're an idiot.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Chan shook his head. 'Impossible in Rear Bay at Boston,' he said, 'but here at moonly crossroads of Pacific, not so much so. Twenty-five years of my life are consumed in Hawaii, and I have many times been witness when the impossible roused itself and occurred.

Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

With [D. T.] Suzuki, Zen coopted the whole field of Japanese culture and, imposing on Japanese ideology the myth of transparency, claimed the status of a transcendental spirituality. With Nishida [Kitar?] and the Kyoto school, Zen acquired a crosscultural philosophical status. Thus, through the work of Suzuki, Nishida and their successors, a new field of discourse was created—one that differs markedly from the earlier Chan/Zen discourse (s) it claimed to replicate or interpret.

To what extent is Chan amenable to a historical approach, if it is indeed? Can this teaching, as [D. T.] Suzuki thought, traverse the claim of history in the name of its own temporal character? If not, to what extent is it threatened by the results of the historical inquiry?

The Chan tradition first acquired its legitimacy as a narrative about patriarchs, and, although some points of the narrative have been questioned by historians, the ideological function of the narrative itself has rarely been scrutinized.

Owing to the lingering Jesuit influence, the study of Confucianism continued to prevail in Western Sinology, while Chinese Buddhism and Chan came to be considered mere offshoots of Indian mysticism.

I mean, Patrick Chan, you could make the argument he's the best skater that ever was.

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

The Japanese word zen in fact means "meditation" or "state of meditative concentration." In Chinese, zen is pronounced chan . Chan is short for channa , which is how the CHinese pronounced dhyana , the Sanskrit word used in India for practices or rarified states of meditative concentration.

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy "one word" Zen. When asked "What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?" he replied: "An appropriate statement." On another occasion, he answered: "Cake." I admired his directness.

I've always been pessimistic about China. I can't see China going on without economic or social issues.

I guess everybody is doing a movie thing, so I'm doing the 'Scorpion King 4.' My role in the movie is as one of the king's guards, with a very original name: Roykus. Apparently, back in the day, everybody's name was 'us,' so 'Roy' plus 'us,' and put a little 'k' in there: Roykus. I'm one of the royal guards, and I do my own stunts like Jackie Chan.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.