Life Zen Quotes: top 69 famous quotes about Life Zen

Life Zen Quotes & Sayings

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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

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

All that exists is the present moment — Alaric Hutchinson

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — Alan Watts

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful. — Don Roff

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art. — Shunryu Suzuki

No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means. — Lidiya K.

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

Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life. — Dermot Davis

[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

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? — Susan Gordon Lydon

All the drain leads to the ocean...
So chill out and enjoy the motion! — Ana Claudia Antunes

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

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

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results. — Seth Godin

Conservation is not a desperate, defensive effort. It is instead joyous and life-affirming. - from Zen Birding — Susan Guyette And David White

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. — D.T. Suzuki

A person in such a hurry seldom gets good results — Jon J. Muth

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead. — Richard K. Morgan

Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities! — Mika.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life. — Frederick Lenz

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life. — Nikki Rowe

Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life. — Philip Toshio Sudo

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life. — Stark Sands

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

It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways. — Alaric Hutchinson

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more. — Julien Torma

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected. — Dick Allen

Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality. — Alaric Hutchinson

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar — Jim Butcher

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive. — Steve Hagen

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake. — Dogen

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. — Kamal Ravikant

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

Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha. — Zenkei Shibayama

Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added. — Charlotte Joko Beck

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

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

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

Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen

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

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

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

Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride. — Dawn Gluskin

Life is eternal game, there are no rules. Indulge yourself. — Osh Marty

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

May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. — Zen

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda

Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life — Ana Claudia Antunes

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 truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect. — D.T. Suzuki

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life. — Dawn Gluskin

People aren't against you; they are just for themselves, don't take it personal. — Diane

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. — Shunryu Suzuki

Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

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

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

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts

Mastering my mind one thought at a time. — Nikki Rowe

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture. — Chris Prentiss

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. — Frederick Lenz

Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

[A] life passed amid the feuds and rivalries of a girls' school had left Prunella not wholly unprepared for battle. — Zen Cho

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. — Frederick Lenz

Have no fear. Trust in the vibrational currents of your life. — Alaric Hutchinson

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death. — Takeda Shingen