Zen Buddhism Quotes
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Zen Buddhism Quotes & Sayings
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Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.
— Frederick Lenz
Always stay in your own movie.
— Ken Kesey
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
— Frederick Lenz
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
— Frederick Lenz
How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
— Sen No Rikyu
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Zen professesitself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies, — D.T. Suzuki
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning ... look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
— Bernie Glassman
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook
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
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.
— Frederick Lenz
Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.
— Frederick Lenz
We find what's in our own heads.
— T. Scott McLeod
The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.
— Francis Harold Cook
When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.
— Barry Graham
Render unto meditation the things that are meditation's, and unto medication the things that are medication's.
— Barry Graham
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
It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.
— Frederick Lenz
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
— Eugen Herrigel
Where there are humans, You'll find flies,
And Buddhas. — Kobayashi Issa
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
Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
If you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.
— Darrell Calkins
Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.
— Frederick Lenz
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[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.
— Steve Hagen
In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
— Shunryu Suzuki
This will never come again
— Steve Hagen
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.
— Frederick Lenz
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.
— Masaharu Anesaki
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[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]
— Steve Hagen
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
— Frederick Lenz
I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.
— Frederick Lenz
The mind is limitless, in its creations.
— T. Scott McLeod
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How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?
— Steve Hagen
Truth is not ... something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]
— Steve Hagen
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
— David Sylvian
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.
— Frederick Lenz
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.
— Donna Quesada
In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ...
— Frederick Lenz
We die, he said.We die, I said. And kn owing this how do we live?
Knowing this, we live.
We live. — Alan Spence
If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.
— Steve Hagen
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
— Frederick Lenz
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.
— Frederick Lenz
The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.
— Frederick Lenz
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
— Alan W. Watts
Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.
— Frederick Lenz
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.
— Frederick Lenz
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When angry, count to Zen.
— Leonard Scheff
Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.
— Muso Soseki
Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.
— T. Scott McLeod
We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.
— Steve Hagen
Once upon a time,there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen
Tantric Zen is a state of mind
— Frederick Lenz
In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
— Frederick Lenz
Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.
— Frederick Lenz
When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
— D.T. Suzuki
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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
itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling
— Dick Allen
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.
— Frederick Lenz
It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.
— Alan W. Watts
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
— Thich Thien-An
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
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
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[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.
— Steve Hagen
Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.
— Steve Hagen
The most important thing Zen Buddhism teaches us is that we are already originally enlightened. This must never be forgotten.
— Clara Taylor
Essays in Zen Buddhism
— Alan W. Watts
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.
— 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
Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?
— T. Scott McLeod
