Quotes of: Zen Keyword

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Robert M. Pirsig

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

The Dude and the Zen Master

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

We don't teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.

The Zen of Teaching

...everywhere I am is true.

The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Chuck Close

I was drawn to horses as if they were magnets. It was in my blood. I must have inherited from my grandfather a genetic proclivity toward the equine species. Perhaps there's a quirk in the DNA that makes horse people different from everyone else, that...

Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough ...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

You don't think your way back to joy; you open to it.

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do;...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is a...

Thomas Merton

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run. You are not running for some future reward-the real reward is now!

The Zen of Running