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Zen is very simple, it means being one with yourself at this very moment. By Paul Kain Zen Simple Moment

Z is for Zany! Master the Zany habit of thinking backwards. it will help you become a really great thinker! By Lucas Remmerswaal Zany Master Backwards Thinker Habit

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are. By Brad Warner Zazen Trance Blissing Alpha Brainwave

Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness. By Osho Zen Liberation Path Required Rules

Zen pretty much comes down to three things everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. By Jane Hirshfield Zen Connected Pay Attention Pretty

Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. By Frederick Lenz Zen Facilities Quick Path Enlightenment

Zen is ... joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself. By Dave Brandon Zen Joyous Iconoclasm Respects

If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't. By Alec Sulkin Moment Zen

Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste By Zentatsu Richard Baker Zen Years Waste Expensive Training

Zen is nothing to get excited about. By Shunryu Suzuki Zen Excited

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen. By Ruth Ozeki Notthinking Nonthinking Zazen Essential Art

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know. By Frederick Lenz Discipline Zen Life Breath Living

I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things By Stephen Chbosky Zen Things Guess Day Part

Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere. By Cheryl Strayed Beautiful Motorcycle

We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature. By David Fontana Faiths Practices Theories Ideologies Western

The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe. By Philip Kapleau Visions Objects Nature Forms Imaginings

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. By Alan Watts Zen Liberation Concerned Advantageous Discovering

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness. By Thomas Merton Transreligious Zen System Transcultural Transformed

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. By Tom Hoover Zen Thought Rational Intuitive Based

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to feel it in your bones. By Alan Watts Zen Bush Extraordinarily Simple Long

Zenia has stolen something from him, the one thing he always kept safe before, from all women, even from Roz. Call it his soul. She slipped it out of his breast pocket when he wasn't looking, easy as rolling a drunk, and looked at it, and bit it to see if it was genuine, and sneered at it for being so small after all, and then tossed it away, because she's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets. What By Margaret Atwood Roz Zenia Women Stolen Thing

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head. By Arthur Koestler Garden Japanese Zen Rock Religion

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience. By James H. Austin Concrete Zen Simple Living Experience

Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature. By David Fontana Zen Moment Defies Definition Experience

Zen movement is a meditative practice. By Bryant Mcgill Zen Practice Movement Meditative

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life. By Shunryu Suzuki Zazen Nature Practice Direct Expression

Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined. By Jean Smith Zen Universe Directly Experience Oneness

Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added. By Charlotte Joko Beck Zen Living Special Life Added

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics. By Philippe Starck Zik Design Ergonomics Simple Humble

Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children. By Rajneesh Man World Zen Made Greatest

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By D.t. Suzuki Zen Freedom Essence Art Nature

50 Zen, read shit.... BECOME MASTER! By Deyth Banger Zen Read Shit Master

What are you, Zen Master Fang? By Charlaine Harris Zen Fang Master

As Zie Zen's ashes flew on the wind, so did the time of those who had been born in freedom, caged in Silence, only to see it fall. Now . . . now it was the time of those who had been born in Silence, fought for freedom. By Nalini Singh Silence Zie Zen Wind Caged

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. By D.t. Suzuki Zen Symbols Facts Representations Substance

My life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that verb with care - of the Zen experience has been a by-result of following my own rather natural path of extreme Zenlessness. By J.d. Salinger Zenlessness Zenful Zen Apprehend Care

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. By D.t. Suzuki Zen Makes Extent Expressions Poetry

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

Zen is completely free from the fetters of old dogmas, dead creeds, and conventions of stereotyped past, that check the development of a religious faith and prevent the discovery of a new truth. Zen needs no Inquisition. It never compelled nor will compel the compromise of a Galileo or a Descartes. No excommunication of a Spinoza or the burning of a Bruno is possible for Zen. By Kaiten Nukariya Zen Dogmas Dead Creeds Past

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen." By Frederick Lenz Zen Problem Essence Estimation Call

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves. By Jean Smith Zen Structure Supports Exploring Practice

Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the "nothing," the "no-body" that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey. By Thomas Merton Enriches Zen Found Body Nobody

Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority. By Brad Warner Zen Belief Complete Absence Authority

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate. By Osho Zen Dignity Tremendous Freedom Ultimate

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness. By Chris Prentiss Mind Happiness Zen Experience Concentration

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves. By Reginald Horace Blyth Activity Care Mindful Zen Mind

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them. By Frederick Lenz Zen Combination Strive Bring Mind

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power. By Frederick Lenz Zen Study Happen Discipline Power

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen. By Reginald Horace Blyth Zen Poetry

A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention." By Dan Millman Attention Replied Zen Roshi Important

Here it is ... your moment of zen. By Jon Stewart Zen Moment

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating. By Frederick Lenz Zen Tantric Meditation Zazen Emphasis

No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close. By Meljean Brook Zenobia Close Siege Engine Equal

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. By Frederick Lenz Zen Meditation Directly Immediately Buffers

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with or at least want to try to stay with whatever is going on. By Jane Hirshfield Stay Zen Attention Delve Enter

Nearly all samurai practice Zen - it is the Way of Enlightenment." "Possibly the light of Zen is so strong that it has blinded me to its virtue." Yoshitoki smiled. "It is very good discipline for the mind, as the martial arts are for the body." Kenmotsu looked very smug as he said this. "I do Zazen twice a week." "I think it will do no-one any harm, though personally I find it more pleasant to think than to empty my mind of thought. By Erik Christian Haugaard Enlightenment Zen Samurai Practice Possibly

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand ; I take a book from the other side of the desk ; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighbouring wood: - in all these I am practising Zen, I am living Zen. No wordy discussions is necessary, nor any explanation. I do not know why - and there is no need of explaining, but when the sun rises the whole world dances with joy and everybody's heart is filled with bliss. If Zen is at all conceivable, it must be taken hold of here. By D.t. Suzuki Zen Flows Idea Catch Life

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes. By Megan Mccafferty Quidditch Beater Nerf Zen Machopartes

Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner."-"When you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. "-"Knowing that your life is short, to enjoy it day after day, moment after moment, is the life of "form is form and emptiness is emptiness."-"You may feel as if you are doing something special, but actually it is only the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases your inmost desire. But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice."-"The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. By Shunryu Suzuki Read Zen Literature Mind Sentence

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet - to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind - with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home. By Nhat Hanh Breathe Cook Speech Zen Mind

Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities. By Chris Prentiss Zen Tradition Journey Exploration Living

Did you manufacture any Z's? By Jonathan Safran Foer Manufacture

ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn. By Kerry Thornley Zen Meditation Social Order State

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song. By Rajneesh Zen Philosophy Poetry Simply Propose

Actually we do not have any particular name for our practice; when we practice zazen we just practice it, and whether we find joy in our practice or not, we just do it. By Shunryu Suzuki Practice Zazen Find Joy

Let's skip the Zen shit and just get back to the killing each other part. By Cassandra Gannon Zen Part Skip Shit Back

We don't have to talk about Zsadist.That's okay. He's the most interesting part of me. By J.r. Ward Talk Interesting Part

So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the good teachers will openly address it specifically as only imagination. Both of my teachers were very good at that. By Brad Warner Zen Imagination Land Occasionally Good

In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom. By Frederick Lenz Zen Zazen Mindfulness Spirit Develop

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice. By Shunryu Suzuki Zazen Practice Practicing Involved Impure

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection. By Jane Hirshfield Hyesims Poems Transformative Moonlight Backpack

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. By D.t. Suzuki Zen Life Monotonous Uninspiring Commonplaceness

Think carefully before you issue me a command, Zenobia. For I will do what you tell me, even if I'm the worst possible man for the job. By Libbie Hawker Zenobia Command Carefully Issue Job

Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment? By Dogen Wholeness Equally Realization Practice Zazen

When you notice your world exactly as it is - free from judgment and with detachment from anticipated outcomes - that is Zen. By Dan Tricarico Zen Free Outcomes Notice World

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. By Alan W. Watts Zen Time Liberation Instant Reality

Thank you, I thought fervently. Thank you, Slavic forebears, ye heavily into consonants. Ye fans of high-scoring Scrabble tiles. Ye who boldly dropped z's where no z's had been dropped before. I appreciate it. By Kate Hattemer Fervently Slavic Thought Dropped Scrabble

X and Ythe Co-ordinates of Zen NavigationX = the limited time you have on the road, in a lifeY = the eternity you have in every hour, every dayZ = Each step you take is a once-in-a-lifetime infinite thing By Vivian Swift Ythe Coordinates Zen Navigationx Road

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death. By Takeda Shingen Zen Death Secrets Thinking Life

Tantric Zen is a state of mind By Frederick Lenz Zen Tantric Mind State

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. By Robert M. Pirsig Zen Find Tops Mountains Bring

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. By Bodhidharma Zen Walking Sitting Thinking Lying

A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. By Frederick Lenz Zen Gymnast Person Undertakes Study

Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha. By Zenkei Shibayama Buddha Zen Selfrealization Complete Living

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined. By Gary Snyder Zen Disciplined Aims Freedom Practice

What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, doing anything perfectly or imperfectly, perfectly. What is the meaning of this perfectly? How does it differ from perfectly? Perfectly is in the will; perfectly is in the activity. Perfectly means that at each moment of the activity there is no egoism in it ... our pain is not only our own pain; it is the pain of the universe. The joy of the universe is also our joy. Our failure and misjudgment is that of nature, which never hopes or despairs, but keeps on trying. R. H. Blyth By R.h. Blyth Perfectly Zen Pain Activity Universe

Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how to start existing without mind again, how to be here without any mind. By Rajneesh Zen Unlearning Kind Mind Learned

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning. By Katsuki Sekida Zen View Philosophy Mysticism Nervous

We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong. By Jack Kerouac Tinker Toy Wrong Mindcollecting Weeks

Zues?" I said."His computer. He named it." Then she whispered conspiratorially, "He acts like it's a person.""I do not," he said as we walked down the hall toward his room."You gave it a birthday party," she said.Grayson stopped walking for a moment. "Annual hard-drive maintenance and software upgrades do not count as a birthday party.""No," she said. "But singing 'Happy Birthday' to it does."He took a deep breath. They've obviously been through this before. "You know I was testing the new voice-recognition software."Natalie looked at me. "Birthday party. By James Ponti Birthday Zues Party Annual Happy

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online. By Stefan Persson Zennstroem Niklas Online Background Successful

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. By Shunryu Suzuki Zen Excitement Routine Kind Concentration

I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life's lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . . By Thomas Pynchon Zoyd Vaseline Time Passing Worry

Zen is a single step - the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn't matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world. By Osho Step Single Zen Journey End

Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen. By Dick Allen Zen Americastop Timethere Signat Small

Before I had studied Zen for thirty years,I saw mountains as mountains,and waters as waters.When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains,and waters are not waters.But now that I have got its very substanceI am at rest.For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains,and waters once again as waters. By Li Ching-Yuen Mountainsand Waters Mountains Zen Knowledge

I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation. By D.t. Suzuki Zen Hand Desk Window Woods

Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now. By Peter Matthiessen Zen Awake Past Reminder Stay

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. By Frederick Lenz Zen Path Meditation Quick Fullness

Zen has nothing to do with letters, words, or sutras. By D.t. Suzuki Words Zen Letters Sutras