Seung Sahn Quotes

#1. Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Seung Sahn

#2. When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Seung Sahn

#3. John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

Brenda Lee

#4. I hadn't wanted to shoot him. I was doing whatever I could think of to get him to leave. It had worked. Every was safe. So why did I feel so awful?

Megan Crewe

#5. I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Sofia Coppola

#6. In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is. It

Catherynne M Valente

#7. For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it.

Torquil Campbell

#8. Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Jackie Kennedy

#9. Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound.

Seung Sahn

#10. The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

Kate Moss

#11. Human beings understand too much.

Seung Sahn

#12. Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Seung Sahn

#13. The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Seung Sahn

#14. Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

Seung Sahn

#15. So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alphonso Jackson

#16. People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

Javier Bardem

#17. I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Edvard Munch

#18. I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

Antonio Banderas

#19. I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Seung Sahn

#20. American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

Seung Sahn

#21. Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.

Kevin Nealon