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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
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.
— Takuan Soho
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn't feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
— Forrest Curran
Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.
— Muso Soseki
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few
— Shunryu Suzuki
When angry, count to Zen.
— Leonard Scheff
In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi
— Barbara L. Jordan
Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.
— T. Scott McLeod
There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
— Harlan Coben
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.
— Daniel Handler
The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.
— Marty Rubin
Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Sayings and Doings of Ta-zan') is one of the best Zen books. [FN#142]
— Kaiten Nukariya
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
— D.T. Suzuki
Nothing divides one so much as thought.
— R.H. Blyth
In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
— Frederick Lenz
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
— Alan W. Watts
Tantric Zen is a state of mind
— Frederick Lenz
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
— D.T. Suzuki
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.
— Frederick Lenz
Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner peace and the sprouting of unconditional LOVE.
— Alaric Hutchinson
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
Once upon a time,there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.
— Steve Hagen
Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop.
— Robert M. Pirsig
