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Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'
— Seungsahn
Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.
— D.T. Suzuki
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
— Frederick Lenz
I use the terms "sky" and "earth" because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.
— Mark Tufo
We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.
— Charlotte Joko Beck
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Find something beautiful to focus on daily and allow Inspiration to have its way with you.
— Alaric Hutchinson
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
Little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway,
— Jack Kerouac
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
— Pico Iyer
I should advise you not to stop there, but set fire to his house, too, and sell his children to pirates. That is the only way he will learn
— Zen Cho
Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow of Zen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
— Dogen
In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.
— Brenda Shoshanna
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.
— Frederick Lenz
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.
— Frederick Lenz
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
— Chuck Close
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
— Dogen
The way a man does one thing is the way he does everything." Zen saying
— Thomas D. Craig
Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
— Frederick Lenz
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
— D.T. Suzuki
You don't think your way back to joy; you open to it.
— Donna Quesada
Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
— D.T. Suzuki
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.
— T. Scott McLeod