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“Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.”

“The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.”

Walks Flower Masters Garden Shopping Traffic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”

Painting Masters Garden Corners Paradise Mice Snakes Appearing Dutch

Author:Mason Cooley

“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.”

Men Made Home Grows Women Sun Fields He Man Masters Garden Window Train Rounds Setting Settings Toil Shields Vines Hoe Enclosure

Author:Joanna Baillie

“People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.”

People Littles States Lost Bits Events Masters Huge Little Bit Europe Garden Popularity

Author:Pete Sampras

“A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for His pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later. Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.”

Firsts May Littles Body Earth Father Pleasure Poor Cutting Son Flower Masters Spring Garden Paradise Good Times Pluck Moths Father And Son Spring Flowers Adieu

Author:Theophane Venard

“The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.”

Has Beens Hands Bits Water Gone Masters Equal Angel Garden Regard Meat Sugar Adoration Delicacy Hummingbirds Sipping Retrievers

Book:False Memory

Source: False Memory

“How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!”

Doe Light Tree Masters Garden Screws Bulbs Plums Light Bulb Zen Master

Book:Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

“The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”

Ifs Water Masters Garden Plant Seeds Branches Weed Gardening Stewardship Gardener

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

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Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley

“You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.”

“I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.”

Source: In a Yorkshire Garden

“The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.”

Party Masters Garden Golf Tournaments Golf Tournaments

Author:Alistair Cooke