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The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so. -- Shunryu Suzuki
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. -- Richard Helms
Here it is ... your moment of zen. -- Jon Stewart
A zen master's life is one continuous mistake. -- Dogen
If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't. -- Alec Sulkin
I learned that you can stand up for yourself and still maintain your zen! -- Doreen Virtue
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself. -- Robert M. Pirsig
To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle -- Steve Ilg
When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. -- Seth Godin
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life. -- Stark Sands
I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen. -- Margot Robbie
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? -- Lee Child
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness. -- Rajneesh
For me, whenever I'm physical it spins my mind and whenever there's a lot going on I put my gloves on or I wrestle somebody and I feel zen. -- Steven R. McQueen
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do. -- Frederick Lenz
If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness. -- Shunryu Suzuki
When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing. -- William Shatner
I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix. -- Lissie
When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you." "Sir?" "It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority." "Sir?" "That's practically zen. -- Terry Pratchett
To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle seat and peddle into hurricane wind for 8 hours at your max effort; there is your ENGAGED ZEN! -- Steve Ilg
In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by. -- Tim Burton
Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot. -- Patrick Fabian
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. -- Rumi
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites. -- Taisen Deshimaru
I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me. -- Peter Farrelly
The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen. -- Yamada Koun
Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What's more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen. -- Huineng
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. -- Matsuo Bash?Creating
When angry, count to Zen. -- Leonard Scheff
In Zen we have no gurus. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
What are you, Zen Master Fang? -- Charlaine Harris
Zen is the vehicle of reality. -- Jim Harrison
Zen has no business with ideas. -- D.T. Suzuki
Zen movement is a meditative practice. -- Bryant McGill
Tantric Zen is a state of mind -- Frederick Lenz
Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha. -- James Patterson
To Zen, time and eternity are one. -- D.T. Suzuki
I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice. -- Natalie Goldberg
Zen is the unsymbolization of the world. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help! -- Mika
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way. -- D.T. Suzuki
Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste -- Zentatsu Richard Baker
For Zen students, a weed is a treasure. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. -- Gary Snyder
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. -- David Sylvian
Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them. -- Gerald May
A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want. -- Frank Zappa
The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character. -- Yamada Koun
In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ... . -- Frederick Lenz
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here. -- Shunryu Suzuki
There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death. -- Takeda Shingen
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child. -- Takuan Soho
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. -- Eckhart Tolle
This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes! -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience. -- James H. Austin
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself. -- Dave Brandon
In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. -- Thomas Merton
The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss." -- Alan Watts
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Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. -- Alan Watts
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out. -- Zac Efron
Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark. -- Fritjof Capra
Zen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision. -- Dr. Ernst Arnold
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. -- John Bradshaw
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. -- Tom Hoover
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. -- D.T. Suzuki
Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts. -- Robert Linssen
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness. -- Thomas Merton
There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is. -- Christine Ebersole
Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves. -- Jean Smith
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something. -- Yamada Koun
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis. -- Tom Hoover
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. -- Stephen Gardiner
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. -- D.T. Suzuki
I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing. -- Jimmy Fallon
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable. -- Frederick Lenz
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. -- Jane Hirshfield
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. -- Tara Brach
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist. -- Nhat Hanh
My look is either very baroque or very Zen "? everything in between makes me itch. -- Iris Apfel
Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap. -- Yamaoka Tesshu
Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. -- Amy Alcott
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. -- Gene Clark
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. -- Frederick Lenz
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. -- Iris Apfel
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. -- Jim Jarmusch
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty. -- Dogen
In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. -- D.T. Suzuki
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. -- Alan Watts
I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen. -- Ilona Andrews
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. -- Annie Leibovitz
As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. -- Helen Palmer Geisel
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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