Quotes About Zen

OSSERVAZIONE DI ZENONE L'altra coda va più veloce.

Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun.

I wish I had more patience.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

my favorite Zen saying," said Dee. "Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

If someone asks about the mind of this monk, say it is no more than a passage of wind in the vast sky.

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

The middle path is a way of not getting anywhere...

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful—just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them.

I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.