Zen Master Quotes
Zen Master Quote of the day
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all
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.
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.
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.
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.
