Quotes of: Zen Keyword

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on whi...

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

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.

Campaign Zen 500bc - 2012: Colonial March Thru Election History Told in Tavern Doggerel

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

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Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - . Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

HOUSE Grow high. The devil can't find you. Grow deep. Buddha can't find you. Build a house and live there. Gourd creepers will climb over it, their flowers dazzling at midnight.

What? 108 Zen Poems

Your true home is in the here and the now.

Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher

Become the person of no rank. Become the noble soul, and live in this awakened way, not imitating anyone. Whatever the circumstances your life asks of you, respond to them in your own individual Zen-spirited way. Don't waste any time trying to be som...

Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas,...

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

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

The Dude and the Zen Master

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids...

Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's...

Brooke Shields

Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" betwee...

Zen and the Art of Happiness

Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan. The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing...

Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things a...

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