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Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. -- David Sylvian
There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years. -- Matthew Sweet
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. -- Thich Thien-An
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. -- Eugen Herrigel
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others. -- Thich Thien-An
In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time. -- Nhat Hanh
Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task. -- D.T. Suzuki
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth. -- D.T. Suzuki
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it? -- Kate Atkinson
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. -- Shunryu Suzuki
People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait. -- Bernie Glassman
Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of satanic power. -- Albert Mohler
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies, -- D.T. Suzuki
I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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