Zen Buddhist Quotes - Page 2

• To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Buddhist, Littles, Revolutionary

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2015). “Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013: Travel Journals 1950–2013”, p.311, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Buddhist, Teaching, Enough

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• There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.

  Avi Arad

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Guy

  "Avi Arad on the Marvel Comic Franchises" by Brian B., movieweb.com. June 21, 2005.

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• There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Buddhist, Garden

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• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

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• But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."

  Paul Watzlawick

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Lying

  Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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