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Always stay in your own movie. — Ken Kesey

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? — Sen No Rikyu

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories. — Steve Hagen

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

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

Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware. — Frederick Lenz

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. — Alan W. Watts

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding. — Frederick Lenz

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. — Frederick Lenz

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase. — Frederick Lenz

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it. — Thich Nhat Hanh

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe. — Steve Hagen

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was. — Jaimal Yogis

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. — Shunryu Suzuki

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. — Steve Hagen

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop. — Brad Warner

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! — C.B. Murphy

We die, he said.
We die, I said. And kn owing this how do we live?
Knowing this, we live.
We live. — Alan Spence

When angry, count to Zen. — Leonard Scheff

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them. — Muso Soseki

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

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

Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America

Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen

Tantric Zen is a state of mind — Frederick Lenz

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

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it. — Frederick Lenz

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