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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

With'n these ribs is / a City of Luminous / all thanks t'you. — Evy Zen

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

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child. — Takuan Soho

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories. — Steve Hagen

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen

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

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.

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

I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude. — Weyes Blood

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here. — Steve Hagen

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

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention. — Cheri Huber

Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority. — Brad Warner

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few — Shunryu Suzuki

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. — Jim Jarmusch

When angry, count to Zen. — Leonard Scheff

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

Born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to — Ikkyu

You are having a baby,' he said.

'I certainly hope it turns out to be a baby,' I agreed. — Zen Cho

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! — C.B. Murphy

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

Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen

Nothing divides one so much as thought. — R.H. Blyth

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness. — Rajneesh

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

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

Tantric Zen is a state of mind — Frederick Lenz

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan W. Watts

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

There is a classic Zen saying that a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, nor can the ocean be separated from a wave. — David Levy

Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop. — Robert M. Pirsig

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug. — Harlan Coben

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — D.T. Suzuki