Koan Zen Quotes: top 25 famous quotes about Koan Zen

Koan Zen Quotes & Sayings

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A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it. — Albert Camus

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. — Darynda Jones

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither; I am instead a Romantic. — Kenzie Western

In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The — John Le Carre

Holmes, you have an answer to everything — Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't wait for the man standing in the
snow
to cut off his arm help him now — Ikkyu

Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu

We're lost where the mind can't find us
utterly lost — Ikkyu

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes. — Brittany Murphy

It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel. — Dan Davis

Born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to — Ikkyu

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres, — Dick Allen

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom. — Frederick Lenz

A day without laugh is a day without life. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits — John F. Kennedy

You'll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me! — A.F. Stewart

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently. — Tomm Moore

We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our best not to fall in love with it. — Ron Brackin

It isn't that we're alone or not alone
whose voice do you want mine? yours? — Ikkyu

That stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind — Ikkyu

Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible. — Wynne Channing

Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him. — Scarlett Thomas

Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there — Ikkyu

I'd love to give you something
but what would help? — Ikkyu

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study. — Frederick Lenz