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“Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.”
Bill Evans
“I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.”
Yusuf Islam
“All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm."”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.”
Amy Alcott
“Sometimes the wrong way is the right direction.”
Sean Maurice Hunt
“The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character”
Yasutani Roshi
“Knock on the sky and listen to the sound”
Contributed by: Subash Raman
Zen saying
“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
Bruce Lee
“Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.”
Chris Patten
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few”
Shunryu Suzuki
