Zen Questions Quotes

“Creative vision, sometimes childlike, enhances our ability to explore and question the reality around us.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“The purpose of Buddhist practice is universal awakening, not dramatic experiences of opening any more than passive states of serenity.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“Faith that is allergic to questioning is just fundamentalist blind dogma.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“One description of faith involves letting go of our resistance to receiving.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“Zen questioning is a very gentle questioning. It is the kind of questioning that the Colorado River asks the Grand Canyon over centuries and centuries.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“Blake encourages us to fully engage our imagination in questioning of reality.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

“Actually, from the Buddhist context all words—and all beings—are verbs, in dynamic activity.”
― Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry