Quotes About Zen

Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.

I'm a peaceful dude.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Nothing creates cool like highness.

Wu Wei, doing nothing, and Wu Bu Wei, doing everything, are our answers to the challenges of modern life.

Life is like the footprint left by a solitary crane in the snow, visible for one moment, and then gone.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

I am a Buddhist.

I'm a Buddhist.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

The Great Way is not difficult for those not attached to preferences. When neither love nor hate arises, all is clear and undisguised. Separate by the smallest amount, however, and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth. —Seng-ts'an, Third Patriarch of Zen

this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

One of the best ways to be patient is to keep your mind focused on what you are currently doing.

D. T. Suzuki, the eminent scholar of Zen Buddhism, one day made this sarcastic comment on the Christian tradition to his friends, American mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychoanalyst Carl Jung: "Nature against Man, Man against Nature; God against Man, Man against God; God against Nature, Nature against God; very funny religion!

a single instant of total presence was worth the reading of all the texts, all the poets, all the philosophers.

There is neither transcendence nor purification.

Werner Herzog: "My steps are resolute. And now the Earth shakes. When I walk, a buffalo walks. When I rest, a mountain rests." This is echoed by Zen master D?gen, "If you doubt mountains walking you don't know your own walking.

What did the Dalai Lama say when he got an electric shock? Ohm.

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He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of "Zen" navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of 'Zen' navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it.