Quotes About Zen

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Heaven balanced on a grassblade

Er war stets so ruhig und gelassen wie frisch gefallener Schnee

When it came to producing a state of focus, quiet contentment, and inner peace, Zen meditation ran a very distant second to caffeine.

Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

On all the peaks lies peace.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form; emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness; whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form.

Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

The U.S. Open just takes so much discipline. You have got to be a great putter and just kind of let things roll off your back.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?

Can you collect chaos?" the ghola asked. "We Zensunni say: 'Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering.' What can you gather without gathering yourself?