Zen Quotes - page 4

If the streambed of education is being enlarged, one formidable force altering its contours is competition. Learning is where you find it: on "Sesame Street," in inner games of tennis and the Zen of everything, in teaching and learning cooperatives, in computers, on FM radio, in self-help books, in magazines... and television documentaries. (Marilyn Ferguson)
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.' View quote
David O. Russell
There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is. View quote
Christine Ebersole
I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen. View quote
Ilona Andrews
Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. View quote
Jane Hirshfield
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. View quote
Gene Clark
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page. View quote
Natalie Goldberg
American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one. View quote
Seung Sahn
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life. View quote
Stark Sands
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction. View quote
Virginia Postrel
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions. (Zoketsu Norman Fischer)
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. View quote
Leonard Cohen
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. View quote
Rajneesh
I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit. View quote
John McLauglin
I've lost myself in my work many times. If you love what you do, this can be a Zen thing, where past and future recede to a vanishing point and leave nothing but the perfect vexing, challenging, beguiling now. View quote
John Vorhaus
There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball. View quote
Jeff Bridges
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing. View quote
Jeff Bridges
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism, demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process. View quote
Keiji Nishitani
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave. View quote
Paul Walker
The Master in these tales is not a single person. He is a Hindu Guru, a Zen Roshi, a Taoist Sage, a Jewish Rabbi, a Christian Monk, a Sufi Mystic. He is Lao-tzu and Socrates; Buddha and Jesus; Zarathustra and Mohammed. (Anthony de Mello)
My Zen master, because I've studied Zen for a long time, told me that every one (and all the stories weren't written then) of the Mary Poppins stories is in essence a Zen story. View quote
P. L. Travers
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off. View quote
Chris Patten
I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go. View quote
Eddie Izzard
Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't. View quote
Mercedes Lackey