Quotes about Zen

Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.

New Yorker cartoon: Two Zen monks in robes and shaved heads, one young, one old, sitting side by side cross-legged on the floor. The younger one is looking somewhat quizzically at the older one, who is turned toward him and saying: "Nothing happens next. This is it.

Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.

Meditation has become such a common element of business training that more than a thousand Googlers attended a training program called, Search Inside Yourself. Google even hosts bimonthly silent 'mindful lunches', which began after Zen monk and writer, Thich Nhat Hanh, visited Google in 2011.

You have to train yourself, to learn how to go home to the present moment, to the here and now.

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.