Quotes About Zen

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

The Zen Buddhists have another way of saying pretty much the same thing: meditation is not something you think about; meditation is something you do. Same with well-being. No matter what ails you, you are not going to think your way out of it or read your way out of it. Living well is something you do. So then it's not something we

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge—the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target.

Dhyan traveled from India to China along with the Buddhist monks, where it was referred to as Ch'an. This yoga traveled through the Southeast Asian countries to Japan and became Zen, and found expression as a whole system of direct insight without an emphasis on doctrine. Zen is a spiritual path that has no scriptures, books, rules, or rigid practices; it is an uncharted path.

Since nowhere can be home let me live nowhere in this scant hut in this brief world

To maintain a positive attitude, a smart player lets missed shots and court errors go by the wayside.

sitting cross-legged on the

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.