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When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible. — D.T. Suzuki

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live. — D.T. Suzuki

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is. — Steve Hagen

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. — Wu Cheng'en

Zen professes
itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies, — D.T. Suzuki

I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen. — Ilona Andrews

Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

These are new worlds, Zen. We don't have to be what we were any more. We can be anything that we want. We can be humans together. - Nova — Philip Reeve

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be? — Earl R. Smith II

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive. — Steven L. Peck

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. — Dogen

Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can't be changed and all the lessons are already learned. — Lidiya K.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. — Zhuangzi

No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break — Nicholas C. Rossis

Do not be too interested in Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. — Alan W. Watts

Vibration can be shifted through the mastery of thought — Alaric Hutchinson

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. — R.H. Blyth

If only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place — Alina Radoi

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

Nothing needs to be done, and things get done. — T. Scott McLeod

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes. — Jane Hirshfield

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy. — Frederick Lenz

I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.
Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet. — Sylvia Plath

It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed. — James Fenimore Cooper

ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh) — Lew Welch

One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites. — Okakura Kakuzo

A female may be poor or delicate or a spinster, but it does seem ill-advised of Miss Liddiard to combine all three. — Zen Cho

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special. — Rajneesh

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha. — James Patterson

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate? — Steve Hagen

Your true Zen nature can never be gained or lost. It is what you are. — Huang Po & Thomas E Uharriet

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. — Bob Dylan

The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas. — Ackshat Deoli

I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. — Frederick Lenz

One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open. — Forrest Curran

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts

... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you. — Zen Cho

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. — Zen Proverb

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

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious. — Frederick Lenz

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

You are having a baby,' he said.

'I certainly hope it turns out to be a baby,' I agreed. — Zen Cho

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here. — Steve Hagen

Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived. — T. Scott McLeod

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. — Chuck Palahniuk

I am a Zen Buddhist - but that is not to be thought of as a religion in — Howard Fast

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Our goal isn't contentment in and of itself. We're not after a mystical state of Zen. Our goal is to be content for the glory and honor of God. — Stephen Altrogge

Be aware of the type of humor you use in your daily life. Just because people are laughing doesn't mean it is creating positive vibes. — Alaric Hutchinson

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural. — Rajneesh

To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it. — Alan W. Watts

When we allow ourselves to be authentically free, it raises our vibration. — Alaric Hutchinson

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain. — Steve Hagen

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate. — Ajahn Chah

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment? — T. Scott McLeod

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job. — Nikki Rowe

The most important thing Zen Buddhism teaches us is that we are already originally enlightened. This must never be forgotten. — Clara Taylor

The greater the time of grief or stress the greater reason we have to be in alignment with peace. — Alaric Hutchinson

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

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. — Haruki Murakami

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience. — D.T. Suzuki

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. — Rajneesh

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [ ... ]
Instead he kissed me. — Richelle Mead

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate. — Alan W. Watts

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water. — D.T. Suzuki

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca.

There is a classic Zen saying that a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, nor can the ocean be separated from a wave. — David Levy

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately. — Dogen

Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart. — Alaric Hutchinson