A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. Votes: 4
Richard HelmsThe only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself. Votes: 3
Robert M. PirsigWhen mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention. Votes: 3
Philip Toshio SudoI feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life. Votes: 3
Stark SandsI feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen. Votes: 3
Margot RobbieIt's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? Votes: 3
Lee ChildOld Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThere is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThis is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes! Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhat is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellZen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself. Votes: 0
Dave BrandonZen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience. Votes: 0
James H. AustinZen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life. Votes: 0
Philip Toshio SudoZen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellOld Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellZen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. Votes: 0
Alan WattsZen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. Votes: 0
Shunryu SuzukiTantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzZen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThere's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is. Votes: 0
Christine EbersoleZen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision. Votes: 0
Dr. Ernst ArnoldThe practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. Votes: 0
Yamada KounZen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. Votes: 0
D.T. SuzukiChildren are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. Votes: 0
John BradshawZen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertZen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. Votes: 0
Tom HooverZen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts. Votes: 0
Robert LinssenZen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves. Votes: 0
Jean SmithPeople who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellBaseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. Votes: 0
Jim JarmuschMy look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. Votes: 0
Iris ApfelMy look is either very baroque or very Zen " everything in between makes me itch. Votes: 0
Iris ApfelZen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzZen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAny good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThose who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. Votes: 0
Shunryu SuzukiI feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing. Votes: 0
Jimmy FallonWe can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. Votes: 0
D.T. SuzukiIn Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. Votes: 0
Stephen GardinerSmile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist. Votes: 0
Nhat HanhThe only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigAt my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. Votes: 0
Annie LeibovitzI just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen. Votes: 0
Ilona AndrewsAs the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Votes: 0
Helen Palmer GeiselI love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window. Votes: 0
Miriam ToewsTantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzZen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning! Votes: 0
Seung SahnZen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. Votes: 0
Reginald Horace BlythA thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. Votes: 0
Reginald Horace BlythZen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAccording to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellZen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. Votes: 0
D.T. SuzukiZen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellNaturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigI don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzIn life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. Votes: 0
Alan WattsFor Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art. Votes: 0
Shunryu SuzukiThere's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. Votes: 0
Chuck CloseHow many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! Votes: 0
Brad WarnerZen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIf Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." Votes: 0
Thomas MertonI'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzI'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellZen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now. Votes: 0
Brenda ShoshannaZen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. Votes: 0
D.T. SuzukiTo remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. Votes: 0
Alan WattsThere is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellZen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. Votes: 7 David Sylvian
You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds! Votes: 6 Nikki Sixx
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance. Votes: 4 Peter Brook
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable. Votes: 6 Frederick Lenz