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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.


Jules Renard

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CHRIS PRENTISS I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER The zen of flyfishing is that zen masters don't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.
O ANNA NIEMUS The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
CHRIS PRENTISS It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be para...
ALAN WATTS Because zen teaches you like no other...
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CHUCK CLOSE The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains,...
REBECCA SOLNIT Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form o...
CHRIS PRENTISS The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character
YASUTANI ROSHI You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spiritu...
ALAN WATTS The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani R...
YASUTANI ROSHI I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.
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WILL MCINTOSH Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.
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J.D. ROBB That Was Zen; This Is Tao
SHUNRYU SUZUKI That Was Zen; This Is Tao
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YVON CHOUINARD Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
SHUNRYU SUZUKI Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
AMY STRUM ALCOTT Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
AMY ALCOTT He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the m...
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YVON CHOUINARD The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.
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JEFF BRIDGES The best part of Zen is that it ends with a full-stop and a smiley.
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LEONARD COHEN Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
UNKNOWN Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
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ANNASTACIA DICKERSON There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I forc...
HARLAN COBEN I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
ECKHART TOLLE [In his autobiography] Sadaharu Oh, a Zen Way of Baseball, ... acquire the body of a rock.
SADAHARU OH May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
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KELLY JONES The more you know, the less you need.
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KUNCHOK Each night the Tree of Nut out of naught knits neat nuts.
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MUMON The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.
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BERT HOLMAN It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And i...
ALAN W. WATTS ...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly lo...
MICHAEL ENDE Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
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VESSELIN DRANGAJOV Zen is a popular online shopping cart that corresponds to the rapid development and extensive functi...
VESSELIN DRANGAJOV I named it the Zen Fencing Academy for my hero, a gentleman by the name of Joe Odom, who sadly passe...
DION SHIVELY Asked to explain Zen my puppy with the same name looks, and thumps his tail
JAY HACKETT The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
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ZOKETSU NORMAN FISCHER Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
JOHN BRADSHAW My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
IRIS APFEL America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas.
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