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Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

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

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.

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.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

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.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.