Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.
Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.
Zen is everywhere. . . . But for you, Zen is right here.
Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.
In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does. . . .
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.
Here it is. My moment of zen.
Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness. . . If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.
The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.
In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.
Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
I learned that you can stand up for yourself and still maintain your zen!
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.
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.