Zen Meditation Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about Zen Meditation
Zen Meditation Quotes & Sayings
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The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.
— Kamal Ravikant
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Render unto meditation the things that are meditation's, and unto medication the things that are medication's.
— Barry Graham
It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The mind is limitless, in its creations.
— T. Scott McLeod
Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
— Frederick Lenz
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
MEDITATION is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentry into society
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.
— T. Scott McLeod
I have lived with several Zen masters all of them cats. — Eckhart Tolle
Compassion dissolves ignorance.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.
— Frederick Lenz
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.
— Frederick Lenz
Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.
— Alaric Hutchinson
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.
— Frederick Lenz
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.
— T. Scott McLeod
Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?
— T. Scott McLeod
With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.
— Ann Patchett
Zen movement is a meditative practice.
— Bryant McGill
