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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. -- Frederick Lenz
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. -- Eckhart Tolle
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. -- John Bradshaw
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. -- Tara Brach
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. -- Dogen
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers. -- Frederick Lenz
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours. -- Pico Iyer
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master. -- Frederick Lenz
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers. -- Terence McKenna
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you. -- Twyla Tharp
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually. -- Frederick Lenz
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time. -- Ruth Ozeki
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world. -- Frederick Lenz
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives. -- Joanna Macy
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.' -- Jack Kornfield
Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world. -- Nicholas Evans
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you. -- Masaaki Hatsumi
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago. -- Sam Hamill
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart. -- Stephen Covey
What are you, Zen Master Fang? -- Charlaine Harris
There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. -- Frederick Lenz
I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. -- Frederick Lenz
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village. -- Frederick Lenz
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it. -- Philip Kapleau
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation. -- Frederick Lenz
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation. -- Frederick Lenz
If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power if it's performed properly. It's a koan between yourself and the Zen Master. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight. -- Frederick Lenz
Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight. -- Frederick Lenz
Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as well as intensives on Buddhism that focus on the work of Zen Master Dogen and Ryokan, as well as on many of the Mahayana sutras. -- Joan Halifax
A zen master's life is one continuous mistake. -- Dogen
In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all -- Brad Pitt
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973) -- Yasutani Roshi
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.' -- Philip Kapleau
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers. -- Frederick Lenz
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'. -- Yvon Chouinard
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually. -- Frederick Lenz
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time. -- Ruth Ozeki
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors. -- Barry Ritholtz

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