Zen Masters Quotes: top 24 famous quotes about Zen Masters

Zen Masters Quotes & Sayings

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I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all — Brad Pitt

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. — Deepak Chopra

Addiction is the fucking devil - I swear to God it is. — Jessica Sorensen

Cities are the sinks of the human race. — Henri Rousseau

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her. — Jamaica Kincaid

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you. — Frederick Lenz

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'. — Yvon Chouinard

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake. — Dogen

In Zen we have no gurus. — Frederick Lenz

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me. — Joan Rivers

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

My father was a difficult man. But he was also a good one. — Veronica Roth

As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions". Drop your theories; don't seek the truth. — Anthony De Mello

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers. — Terence McKenna

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. — John Bradshaw

I have lived with several Zen masters
all of them cats. — Eckhart Tolle

If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration. — Julia Woodman

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Dogen

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself. — Frederick Lenz

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss." — Alan Watts

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! — Brad Warner

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation. — Ravi Zacharias

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. — Alan Watts