Quotes About Zen

The way to peace is to be peaceful.

Patience is the warrior's true weapon - a thousand patient breaths bring victory.

He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

Strangely enough, Brine took comfort in the fact that this experience was invalidating every assumption he had ever made about the nature of the world. He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Sometimes I wonder if anything that happens to us is ever a mistake. The Zen masters say, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with this moment.

The first line says, "Be at all times without deluded thoughts arising." Deluded thoughts are the same thing as dichotomous thoughts, dualistic thoughts.

No response no reaction

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Come on inner peace — I don't have all day.

I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge into–into what? Into Zen Buddhism; into falsely profound questions … into extrasensory perception and mystery. They do not lie along the line of what we are now able to know if we devote ourselves to it: an understanding of man himself.

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

When I hear someone touting the cloud as a magic-bullet for all computing problems, I silently replace "cloud" with "clown" and carry on with a zen-like smile.

The Way returns the carved and the polished to simplicity.

Your mind is nirvana.

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.

You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

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The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say Gusty Winds May Exist. This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.