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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
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 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
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