Quotes About Zen

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

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.

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Keep Calm and Find Your Zen-ity

Según las enseñanzas Zen, cada vez que comemos ingerimos la energía vital de incontables seres. La comida en nuestro plato es producto del sol, la tierra, la lluvia, los insectos que polinizaron las plantas y de muchas personas, como labradores, camioneros y tenderos.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Koan study is specifically designed to short-circuit the whole intellectual process and experience reality directly.

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.