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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. -- Chuck Close
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. -- Frederick Lenz
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience. -- D.T. Suzuki
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate. -- Frederick Lenz
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18. -- M. Scott Peck
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! -- Nikki Sixx
The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage. -- Eric Maisel
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens. -- Howard Fast
To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience. --
With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists. -- John Ankerberg
There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying. -- Avi Arad
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again. -- Maya Angelou
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. -- Frederick Lenz
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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