T Quotes
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“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.”
“The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.”
“The zeal of fools offends at any time.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.”
Source: Schiller's Complete Works
“The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays”
“The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.”
“The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.”
“The zealous student will be very ready to put into action what he has read, rather than only to understand it. For there is less hardship in not knowing what you want than in not being able to carry out what you know.”
“The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.”
Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct
“The zebra was forlorn that its strips were not the same as everyone else’s. However, upon close examination the zebra eventually discovered that no one’s strips were the same. Discovering this, the zebra suddenly realized that it was a good thing to be part of a herd, but it was not a good thing to be lost in the herd.”
“The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.”
“The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.”
“The Zen Buddhism concept of shoshin (the beginner’s mind) is a reminder of intuition’s importance. Ultimately, the beginner’s mind offers humility as a place for learning.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The Zen experience is what happens when you lose yourself in the moment. It feels as if the whole world stops, and you have a supreme sense of harmony and peace. But in fact, what actually stops is your ego-process. When the ego-process stops, so stop your expectations, desires, worries, and anxiety. Then you find yourself living in the present, overtaken by joy and filled with peace.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.”
Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
“The Zen life is not something which remains unchanged in spite of changes in customs, time periods, nationalities, cultures, and traditions. On the contrary, it is exactly in its adaptation to such changes that Zen expresses its creativity. It for this reason that there is room left for new growth on the part of Zen in the present age as well.”
Source: The Zen Life
“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.”
“The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.”
“The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“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 masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.”
“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”
Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
“The Zen movement of the T’ang period marks a peak in the history of Zen. The Zen disciples of following generations looked to it for the highest possible realization of the Zen ideal.”
Source: Zen Enlightenment: Origins And Meaning
“The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Happiness
“The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.”
“The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.”
Source: Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success
“The Zen practitioner must . . . strive to liberate himself from his attachment to knowledge and to open the door of his being in order that truth might enter.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“The Zen sect had been favored by the Ashikaga shogunate and had, during the Ashikaga (Muromachi) and the earlier Kamakura periods, supervised commercial and cultural relations with China through the famous Tenryūbune (Tenryūji ships) sponsored by the Tenryūji branch of the Rinzai school in Kyoto. Zen temples played an important cultural role with their schools, the so-called terakoya, and they controlled the celebrated Ashikaga College (referred to by Xavier as the "University of Bando"), a major center for classical Chinese learning. At the beginning of the Tokugawa period, the temples still had important administrative and diplomatic privileges, for instance in the issuing of passports (Boxer 1951, 262). Only later in that period did Zen suffer a setback owing to the rising tide of Confucian orthodoxy.”
Source: Chan Insights and Oversights
“The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“The zenith is just a little farther away from the nadir”
“The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.”
“The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.”
Source: Kilol-Bruges Express: The Fading Nomad
“The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.”
“The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.”
“The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.”
“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”
“The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.”
Source: Writings in Time of War
“The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable.”
Source: New Bottles for New Wine: Essays
“The Zhuangzi is very good on telling us how the nonhuman-made world can enter into who we are more deeply than at the level of answering to our current interests. If the environment can shape who we are, it can shape our very interests, leading us to recognize things, events, and processes that are of genuine value and that we have not previously recognized as such.”
“The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.”
“The Zionist leadership came up with two kinds of response to this predicament: one for public consumption, the other for the limited corps of intimates Ben-Gurion had collected around himself.”
Source: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
“The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five should be directed to Palestine - not allowed to go to the West.”
“The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to provide any kind of aid. The Zionist movement concealed the information that came from within the ghetto walls and concentration camps, news that shed light on what was really happening. If it had to publish anything, it did so by questioning that information and diminishing its importance.”
“The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.”
“The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.”
“The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.”
“The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.”