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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

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

That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment. — Charlotte Joko Beck

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is. — Steve Hagen

Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned — Adyashanti

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on
not on our own terms, but on the world's. — Steve Hagen

The nimble of mind long for the challenge of new discoveries. Weary minds cling to what is already known. — K. Lee Lerner

[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

And not being guided into action by foolish thought is what is known as "wisdom" (prajna). — Zen Master So Sahn

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there. — Frederick Lenz

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. — Donna Quesada

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Light and flow is what shifts the world's vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition. — Alaric Hutchinson

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

A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want. — Frank Zappa

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is. — John Cage

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. — Alan Watts

This will never come again — Steve Hagen

Your true Zen nature can never be gained or lost. It is what you are. — Huang Po & Thomas E Uharriet

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly ... what he is saying inwardly. — Frederick Lenz

And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking? — Frank Herbert

What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master. — Frederick Lenz

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes. — Jane Hirshfield

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment. — Brenda Shoshanna

What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence. — Frederick Lenz

Zen probably won't solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems. — Barry Graham

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow. — Alaric Hutchinson