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Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place.
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
Cooking is one of the most zen things - you have to be there.
One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.
In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.
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.
I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.
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.
I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.
I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.
I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
I'm a walker, whether that's a stroll on the beach at sunset or getting up at eight o'clock on a Sunday morning and doing an eight-hour hike through a canyon. It's Zen time for me.
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'