Quotes About Zen

I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things.

So, I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things.

Du coup, je me dis que le zen, c'est un jour comme aujourd'hui, quand on fait partie de l'air et qu'on se rappelle des trucs

The trance happens when you don't focus on anything.

What we see here is becauselessness itself.

In a foxhole, the past and, more important, the future do not exist. The only thing in the world that matters is the moment

Luis Barragan: simple, geometric, rectangular forms, walls with bright colours, shafts of light. Tadao Ando: natural light and contexts, zen-like experiences. Friedensreich Hundertwasser: human, in harmony with nature. Rafael Moneo: simple geometric massing, masonry. Glenn Murcutt: minimalist, vernacular. Kengo Kuma: traditional aesthetics, natural materials.

As the eighth-century Chinese Zen master Sen-ts'an wrote: The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

He pried your fingers loose from any rock of comfort you clung to in the treacherous waters of human life and laughed if you drowned. Instead of a beatific smile, Roshi offered a sarcastic smirk.

Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is exactly the recipe with which the open-source culture is now clobbering its competition.

Calm your waters

kein Rausch mehr, nur noch Rauschen.

It's always a relaxing time before my match.

Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.

When I am playing my best, I am not worrying about a whole lot.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Zen means putting it all down, cutting off all thinking, and returning to your pure and clear original nature.

This is the whole point of the Heart Sutra. From moment to moment, when you are doing something, just do

The practice of Zen never explains anything. Zen simply points directly at our mind, our true self, so that we can directly attain enlightenment and help all beings. So

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

Desire and aspiration are two different things. The idea that you want to achieve something in Zen meditation is basically selfish. 'I want to get enlightened' means 'I want to get enlightened.' But aspiration is not for myself, it is not a merely individual desire, it transcends the idea of self. It is desire without attachment. If enlightenment comes, good. If enlightenment does not come, good. Actually, this is enlightenment.

You must understand what is in pain. Then you will understand Utmost Vehicle Zen, and see that everything in the universe is the truth.

be very careful about wanting enlightenment. This is a bad Zen sickness. When you keep a clear mind, the whole universe is you, you are the universe. So you have already attained enlightenment. Wanting enlightenment is only thinking. It is something extra, like painting legs on the picture of a snake. Already the snake is complete as it is. Already the truth is right before your eyes.