Quotes About Zen

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.

I'm saying HELLO to everybody at work. HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it

Like a Zen master, she reduced to the essences: I do not need to walk around the Museum of Fine Arts; I do not need to be pushed around the MFA in the chair; I do not need the MFA at all, because its treasures, as I love them, are imprinted in my memory; and if they are wrongly memorized-a lily where there are tulips, the boy's torn hat rakish at the wrong angle-then this only makes the pictures the more mine.

skill of mastering the art of effortless concentration

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

Be intent on the action, not on the fruits of action.2

The words of his Zen Buddhist flight instructor echoed in his head: You are a leaf on the wind.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

I don't think the sensei would mind. He is also a Zen priest. He quotes Zen philosophy a lot. Like, 'If you light a candle for somebody else, it also brightens your path.' And my favorite: 'A rising tide lifts all boats.

Get it together, I told myself. Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

I know I perform best when I stay calm.

I've always been really good at staying in the moment my whole career. I just stay within myself.

The master Wen-yu summed it up when he answered a demand for the First Principle of Ch'an with, "If words could tell you, it would become the Second Principle.

One of the major insights of Zen is that the world should be perceived directly, not as an array of embodied names.